Tkach candidly admits that “For decades, we prejudiced our members against Christmas and Easter by teaching that they originated as pagan days of worship.”[48] Armstrong was intolerant on the subject and did not allow for any justification: “But, many still reason, ‘even so – even though Christmas was a PAGAN custom, honoring the false SUN-GOD, we don’t observe it to honor the false god, we observe it to honor CHRIST.”[49]
