Just one of the many things we find ourselves thankful for this week.
Y'all stay safe out there.
The beauty of small town living...
- ROSE
- Bomont, West Virginia, United States
- When you have no idea what you're doing, somebody else will ... or at least make something up & run with it.
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Who was President in 1870 who declared Christmas a Federal holiday for all time?
It was Ulysses S. Grant. Some pagans want to abolish it.
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Pagans?
Don't you mean infidels?
Yeah you got that right!
All hail the great sky god Jeebus.
He leadeth us to hate those not like us.
These a holes, right, left, intelligentsia, liberals or whatever you want to call them are too late to abolish Christmas. It's a Federal holiday. That can only be changed by congress. I know those fellers aren't worth much but they are not stupid enough to repeal Christmas.
Yeah it's a Federal holiday the states are left to celebrate it as they wish. Any non-conformist's states out there?
Jesus told us to love our neighbors.
Why aren't you listening?
Hi neighbor, from this day forward you shall have no more celebrations of your birthday, however you shall still show signs of aging until you dry up and blow away until you are completely forgotten. Lost in the mists of time.
PS; I don't have any neighbors.
In Santa's name Amen.
Santa=Satan
How about calling Washington's birthday "birthday" or Christmas tree "tree". What are these refugees from hell afraid of? They must believe in God if they are afraid to mention His name in any fashion.
Don't you mean Holyday tree?
No, I mean the accepted date of Jesus birth.
I thought according to scripture they already determined Christ was born in the summertime.
Were you there that you know when his birth was?
From the United Church Of God Website
http://www.ucg.org/bible-faq/when-was-jesus-christ-born-was-jesus-born-december-25-christmas-day
"Lacking any scriptural pointers to Jesus's birthday, early Christian teachers suggested dates all over the calendar. Clement...picked November 18. Hippolytus...figured Christ must have been born on a Wednesday...An anonymous document[,] believed to have been written in North Africa around A.D. 243, placed Jesus's birth on March 28" (Joseph L. Sheler, U.S. News & World Report , "In Search of Christmas," Dec. 23, 1996, p. 58).
A careful analysis of Scripture, however, clearly indicates that December 25 couldn't be the date for Christ's birth. Here are two primary reasons:
First, we know that shepherds were in the fields watching their flocks at the time of Jesus' birth (Luke 2:7-8
1). Shepherds were not in the fields during December. According to Celebrations: The Complete Book of American Holidays , Luke's account "suggests that Jesus may have been born in summer or early fall. Since December is cold and rainy in Judea, it is likely the shepherds would have sought shelter for their flocks at night" (p. 309).
Similarly, The Interpreter's One-Volume Commentary says this passage argues "against the birth [of Christ] occurring on Dec. 25 since the weather would not have permitted" shepherds watching over their flocks in the fields at night.
Second, Jesus' parents came to Bethlehem to register in a Roman census (Luke 2:1-4
2). Such censuses were not taken in winter, when temperatures often dropped below freezing and roads were in poor condition. Taking a census under such conditions would have been self-defeating.
Given the difficulties and the desire to bring pagans into Christianity, "the important fact then which I have asked you to get clearly into your head is that the fixing of the date as December 25th was a compromise with paganism" (William Walsh, The Story of Santa Klaus , 1970, p. 62).
If Jesus Christ wasn't born on December 25, does the Bible indicate when He was born? The biblical accounts point to the fall of the year as the most likely time of Jesus' birth, based on the conception and birth of John the Baptist.
Since Elizabeth (John's mother) was in her sixth month of pregnancy when Jesus was conceived (Luke 1:24-36
3), we can determine the approximate time of year Jesus was born if we know when John was born. John's father, Zacharias, was a priest serving in the Jerusalem temple during the course of Abijah (Luke 1:5
4). Historical calculations indicate this course of service corresponded to June 13-19 in that year ( The Companion Bible , 1974, Appendix 179, p. 200).
It was during this time of temple service that Zacharias learned that he and his wife, Elizabeth, would have a child (Luke 1:8-13
5). After he completed his service and traveled home, Elizabeth conceived (Luke 1:23-24
6). Assuming John's conception took place near the end of June, adding nine months brings us to the end of March as the most likely time for John's birth. Adding another six months (the difference in ages between John and Jesus (Luke 1:35-36
7)) brings us to the end of September as the likely time of Jesus' birth.
Although it is difficult to determine the first time anyone celebrated December 25 as Christmas Day, historians are in general agreement that it was sometime during the fourth century. This is an amazingly late date. Christmas was not observed in Rome, the capital of the Roman Empire, until about 300 years after Christ's death. Its origins cannot be traced back to either the teachings or practices of the earliest Christians.
3rd century history
No I wasn't there but I know Satan's sleigh would have a tough time in the summer.
To the practicing troll on this blog, you need more practice.
Yeah, enough of the hating already troll.
Anyone else notice Rose has a nice set of racks there? Thats what this threads all about, not hating.
Oh happy I have a dream day and happy cherry tree day also merry log cabin day coming up. I can't wait. At least I won't have to spend any money to fill foreign coffers.
This threads about the racks, not the qacks.
Hey log cabin man, ad a pickup truck and a train an you got the start of a hit country western song.
You one of them Lincoln Log Republicans?
I heard about you guys.
Glad I woke you fellers up. I thought maybe y'all dried up and blew away.
Happy Christmas!
I just found out Obummers at it again...
What's he lie-ing about now?
GOTCHA!
I was just over at Andy's news page reading about all the wacky things going on in this country. I can remember years ago talk about putting LSD in the reservoirs. I been saying this for years. There is something in the water!
The High Sheriff an one Deputy took LB Metheney And the Brown girl to jail the other day. Musta been a hell of a ride with two people in the back seat weighing in at 668 pounds. Like hauling hogs to the slaughter house.
I heard they had em in a cage in back of a pickup. How they ever gonna feed em.
Through the bars.
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