Comments on: Finding value in a pagan tradition http://markjshaw.net/wp/index.php/2009/12/finding-value-in-a-pagan-tradition/ Poker is life. Life is poker. Fri, 07 Oct 2011 20:26:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: jay c http://markjshaw.net/wp/index.php/2009/12/finding-value-in-a-pagan-tradition/comment-page-1/#comment-12171 jay c Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:06:14 +0000 http://markjshaw.net/wp/?p=738#comment-12171 I have mixed feelings about Christmas. I don't have anything against celebrating Jesus' birth, and there's nothing intrinsically wrong with the date of December 25th. I do have a problem with the probable pagan roots of many Christmas customs, though, and, as you point out, the crass commercialism of it. Frederick Pohl wrote a story about Christmas carried to extremes. A department store manager falls for the recently returned daughter of a missionary to Borneo. Her family hadn't been in the States for many years and they are shocked by the insanity of the Christmas "season." Needless to say, the two aren't a very good match. I wish I could remember the name of that story. I have mixed feelings about Christmas. I don’t have anything against celebrating Jesus’ birth, and there’s nothing intrinsically wrong with the date of December 25th. I do have a problem with the probable pagan roots of many Christmas customs, though, and, as you point out, the crass commercialism of it.

Frederick Pohl wrote a story about Christmas carried to extremes. A department store manager falls for the recently returned daughter of a missionary to Borneo. Her family hadn’t been in the States for many years and they are shocked by the insanity of the Christmas “season.” Needless to say, the two aren’t a very good match. I wish I could remember the name of that story.

]]> By: bob http://markjshaw.net/wp/index.php/2009/12/finding-value-in-a-pagan-tradition/comment-page-1/#comment-12110 bob Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:18:04 +0000 http://markjshaw.net/wp/?p=738#comment-12110 Dude! Exactly what my wife and I were talking about yesterday. Right on. Dude! Exactly what my wife and I were talking about yesterday. Right on.

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