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A Christmas Poem This is a poem a Witness student wrote for an extra credit assignment this week at school. The teacher said she had to write a poem based on an historical event, and put it to a Christmas tune. She asked if she could modify the assignment by just writing a poem on the origin of Christmas and if true Christians should celebrate it. She is very talented. Enjoy!
Christmas Poem By: Monit Phillips Christmas time for many is the best time of the year. A time to bond with family for gift giving and cheer. But if you did some research of how it originated, you'd ask yourself, "Is it proper for true Christians to celebrate it?" You can ask any Christian,
anyone on the Earth What December 25 th is and they'll say, "Christ Jesus' birth". Was Jesus really born in December? According to the Bible, he wasn't. Does Christmas come from true Christians? No, it surely doesn't. The Jewish month of Chislev or our November/December, was not pleasant in Bethlehem . It had cold and rainy weather. The Bible writer Ezra confirmed that when cold Chislev came, people were "shivering on account of the showers of rain". (Ezra 10:9, 13) Jeremiah also wrote
that when this month arrived,
people said it was so cold you couldn't "stand outside"! (Jeremiah 36:22)
So if he was born in December and conditions were so poor, why would shepherds on this night be "living out of doors"? (Luke 2:8-12) Well where does Christmas come from? I surely have to tell 'ya. It's from an ancient festival whose name was Saturnalia. During this pagan party, people exchanged gifts. Its date was very familiar. December 25 th . This date was someone's birthday: Tammuz was his name. It was a festival that would
give all of us great shame. They used the tall green Christmas tree
and wreaths were all around to represent phallus as researchers have found. The mistletoe had powers
they put it into use it was to promote fertility, the first step to reproduce! The ornaments you've come to know they made their use of these Except for round glass globes they used human heads on trees! If this were Christ's true birthday and he was really for it wouldn't he tell us to do it? Wouldn't he support it? So think about this info and read the Bible through then take a moment and ask yourself: "What would Jesus do?"
What if you celebrate it December 24 or November 25 or October 25 ?? No one knows what day Jesus was born and it doesn't matter who cares so pick a day any day. Whatever day you pick I'll bet I can go back through history and find something wrong with it. Like my mom always says don't look to the past (She says only go back 10 - 15 years in the watchtowers) look ahead. Yeah, Jesus never commanded us to do it, so what! He didn't command us to do a lot of things, that doesn't mean you don't do them. Actually that's kind of funny when you think about it. Imagine someone commanding you to celebrate their birthday or anniversary. Kind of would lose the genuineness of it ya think ??? The anniversary of my wedding is on the 21 who cares!! Sometimes we wait till the weekend or go before the weekend to go out to eat and celebrate. I just thought of something our anniversary is on the winter solstice the longest night of the year OHHHHH NOOOO when we celebrate it our celebration is coinciding with pagan celebrations of the rebirth of the sun AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What to do what to do what to do what to do. I don't understand why JW's are so hung up on this Christmas thing. I think it's because they can't stand to see "worldly" people enjoying themselves, maybe? WHATEVER !!!!!!
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...OUTLAW