J's comments
(member since Sep 12, 2009)
J's comments from the I live for Jesus and Jesus alone!! group.
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Christmas is a holiday celebrating families and children.Christmas-like holidays were celebrated everywhere. The Puritans outlawed Christmas because the celebrations were rowdy and not like they are today. Much later on, Christmas was declared a federal holiday. But they needed a reason for it. Ergo: families and children. Prior to this, families were very strict. Now, however, families are normally more relaxed and Christmas celebrates that.
But I think it's possible for kids to learn that lesson as long as there are plenty of other kids around that do believe in Santa. Then they can realize that it's easy to get sucked into lies that almost everyone is telling - but they know the truth.
He's also pointing out that there's NO way to prove that it's the Christian god and not Zeus 'answering' your prayers, so why waste your time believing it is?
crazy MN Viking fan who's also a STALKER!! ~leah~ wrote: "Yeah but when you get older you can choose for yourself."Yes, but if you spent your entire life believing in what your parents told you to believe, it makes it harder to break away from it and make an unbiased decision.
Nathan wrote: "I'm not sure about the Santa thing. I think I am against it, but not sure what I would do with kids."That's what I think.
Mm, gotcha.
Hmmm. If you ever had kids, would you have them believe in Santa?Why don't you ever say Merry Christmas?
N.S.A (Search for the truth) wrote: "When I was little I asked my dad how to get into heaven and he told me that I had to believe that Jesus died and rose again for me. So I thought about what my dad said and I opened the bible."You can't say "The reason I'm a Christian is because I want to go to heaven." That means you believe in heaven already - which is a Christian belief.
Also, you hardly 'chose' it. Your parents were obviously Christians who obviously had a Bible or two in the house. I highly doubt that you looked up other religions when you were young. If your parents were Muslim or Buddhist, you would claim you 'chose' that too.
I keep considering what I'm going to do if I ever have kids. Celebrate? Don't? Call it Christmas? Who knows.
Nathan wrote: "But how did they get here? They had to be created somehow in order to be here now. How do you know they were always here?It's almost like a I already answered this question. Oh wait, I did."
Hehehe.
go minnesota vikings!!! *leah saved by Jesus Chris wrote: "And i'm not gonna tell my age to some dude over the Net! i'm not an idiot!!"How is telling your age going to make it possible for us to find you?
Nickolas Rain wrote: "Like what, exactly?The Big Bang Theory... That is a pretty wild theory... "Once! There was NOTHING!!!! Then... There was this big explosion and the universe was made!" How the heck would ANY sc..."
I think you've just proved your idiocy.
go minnesota vikings!!! *leah saved by Jesus Chris wrote: "Maybe you were Christians once, but you didn't exactly feel Him. Once you feel Him and see the effects He has on your life, you'll understand"Actually, I did 'feel' him before. And look, I'm an atheist now. Feeling something doesn't make it true. All it means is that you have emotions.
go minnesota vikings!!! *leah saved by Jesus Chris wrote: "One thing they said was that earth was created w/ a big BANG!"Maybe if you actually LEARNED about it, you'd realize it isn't that ridiculous sounding.
go minnesota vikings!!! *leah saved by Jesus Chris wrote: "The process of science is the best way to understand how things really workRiggghhht. You should see some of the crazy things some scientist theories say. "
Like what, exactly?
Actually, we never said believing in something you can't see is dangerous. We said believing in something without evidence is dangerous.
Nickolas Rain wrote: "We know air exists because there is evidence for it. Air is not the same as religious faith. Stop pretending it is.I'm not pretending it's the same... It's just a way to think of it...
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And in thinking of faith as air, you are pretending it's the same. Well, it ISN'T. There is evidence for air, there is no evidence for God. The fact that you cannot see either of them is absolutely irrelevant.
go minnesota vikings!!! *leah saved by Jesus Chris wrote: "I've read much of it. It is not evidence for anything other than the fact that some authors from long ago liked to ..."Yeah, but one teeny difference. The Bible is real. Besides, Nathan, how d..."
The Bible is not real. Why do you say it is? What evidence do you have of this?
Nickolas Rain wrote: "I've read much of it. It is not evidence for anything other than the fact that some authors from long ago liked to write stories.Stories? Is that really all the Bible means to you?"
Yes.
Nickolas Rain wrote: "Bringing us back to that air thing! Air isn't dangerous... Well the polution in it is but that aside, you still need air to ..."We know air exists because there is evidence for it. Air is not the same as religious faith. Stop pretending it is.
I live for Jesus and Jesus alone!!
