Should jws eat christmas lunch?

by badboy 33 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  LouBelle

  HOW DOES EATING FOOD HAVE A PAGAN CONNECTION

  Stilla - remember when the Israelites were on the boarder of the promised land. The cananites invited them to partake in the feasts - these feast were pagan in origin. And then Phineous came along and impailed some friend of his and a cananite woman on a spear (or maybe it was phineous that got impailed)

  I do remember going to my worldy grans' home after the assembly one year (yes once it fell on christmas day) and having lunch with them - I felt a little guilty, but not too much. As I became more enlightened I started decorating her tree, wrapping presents, helping her cook....now I throw parties and enjoy christmas 110%
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  Farkel

  : Should jws eat christmas lunch?
  : does have pagan connection
  
  Sigh.
  
  Billy Bob makes two tuna sandwiches and puts each one of them on a separate plate. Two friends walk up and each takes a plate with a sandwich. Jed asks, "what is this fer?" The guy who put together the sandwiches says, "Nothin' special, really. I just thought yer might like a samich, Jed."
  
  The second guy, Bobby Ray asks, "what is mine fer?" Billy Bob says, "I thought yer might like a Christmas samich, Bobby Ray."
  
  Bobby Ray says, "Yer demonized, Billy Bob! Yew know I'm a Jehover Witness and we don't salivate Christmess. You take yer samwich and shove it up where the sun don't shine, becaz I ain't gonna compromise my tegrity. 'Nough said."
  
  Two tuna sandwiches. Two attitudes about what the sandwiches were "about." But the sandwiches are still the same identical sandwiches no matter what the attitudes about them were about.
  
  One was a regular tuna sandwich. The other, identical sandwich was just another regular tuna sandwich, but the second one was called a "Christmas" tuna sandwich! Shudder! It MUST now be demonized!
  
  Rubbish!
  
  (This MUST be Bible Based(tm). Somewhere.)
  
  Farkel
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  sacolton

  LOL! That's a great story.

  I can take a box of cookies to a JW and say, "Hey, have a Christmas cookie!" and he'll refuse and sprew all the reasons Christmas is pagan and blah, blah, blah. So, I walk around the office and come back to the same JW and say, "Hey, have a cookie!" "Are these Christmas cookies?", he asks. "Nope." He takes three cookies. Only then can he consciencely eat the cookies. It's ridiculous!
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  undercover

  That's all well and good, the stories on tuna samiches and cookies...

  But fruitcake is a tool of Satan, whether its Xmas fruitcake or not
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  snowbird

  But fruitcake is a tool of Satan, whether its Xmas fruitcake or not

  What you talkin' 'bout, UC!!!

  Fruitcake is a trusty standby when all the other stuff's been eaten.

  Sylvia
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  sacolton

  I agree, undercover. I think there is scripture that specifically warns of the dangers of fruitcake (aka Satan's Fruit).
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  undercover

  Fruitcake is a trusty standby when all the other stuff's been eaten

  and it makes a handy door stop in a pinch...
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  mcsemike

  Is blood puddng an alternate choice?
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  wha happened?

  what's a Christmas lunch?
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  mary stewart

  i thought xmas was about jesus? is jesus pagan all of a sudden? o_O
  
  i just LOOOVE how JWs mock real xtianity!