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selene1212:

This is the truth of the matter.

Happy Holidays to all!!!

Happy Merry Freakin’ EVERYTHING!  🙂

I can see myself posting this on facebook before Christmas is here…it’s that great. 

The Pilgrims that people love to trot out for Thanksgiving did not celebrate Christmas or Easter. They saw then as man-made celebrations that were tied too closely to the pagan holidays they matched up with, as they saw no scriptural reasons to celebrate them. This fact is conveniently forgotten by most Christians in the US.

I personally prefer “Happy Holidays,” because while I don’t view Christmas as a holy day (even though I am a Christian; I see Christmas is something Constantine slapped on non-Christian holy celebrations so that Christianizing Rome would go more smoothly), I recognize that some people do and that, more importantly, a lot of other people have important days this time a year.

The holiday season is, to me, a time to celebrate the people who are close to you, the people who make your life brighter in the colder, darker (for the US; other places have a less cold, less dark winter) time of the year. Arguing over what to call it just dims everyone’s light.