The was very interesting Lady Liberty! more the reason to celebrate his birth!
Wow WTWizard! I forgot all about that scripture which book? so I can look it up again! I think that is why on the radio they play Christmas songs during December!
I was not allowed to listen to the Christmas songs growing up, now I look forward to hearing them. But it was a couple of years ago that I would still flip the channels thinking they were pagan!
As far as the other replies with various books and encylopedias! They are still comparing Christmas with pagans and that is the style of writing the WTBTS has used for years! Does it make Christmas a pagan holiday! NO, but it does make people think of it as pagan! They did a good thing getting pagans to sing songs about Christ. Although, I wish they would have left some of their pagan stuff out of the celebration. But like another poster, you make it you own. I think I can try to leave the pagan stuff out! Yule stuff.
If angels can rejoice and sing for our new KING than so can Christains and it is not a pagan holiday.
Although I was thinking about getting a nice tree until I saw in Jeramiah and how Jehovah does not like people bringing trees in the house to decorate. I would rather please God than to please myself with a tree! It is part of that desire in me to really want a tree! so I guess I will need to get a live tree for the outside. I do need to read that scripture to see if it applies to modern day Christmas trees!
Thanks WTWizard and LadyLiberty!