Message from @Doc
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So, I chuckle just a little when people get tweaked about taking Christ out of Christmas....
Gotta ritualize somehow. That was just as good as any other way. Still celebration of Christianity to Christians, which I am not.
Except they do it for completely different reasons than you've otherwise outlined.
That and it's become part of the faith.
Yup
I'm a Meist tho.
I'm a theist.
I grew up in Christian schools.
I just consider myself a theist.
Grew up Christian. Didn't take.
As a Christian...Christmas is a joke to me. Itโs completely blasphemous
The church has only officially recognized the worship aspect of celebrating Christ's Mass. The rest of it all predates Christianity. Probably even the commercialization. ๐
Anything other than precisely what a person follows is blasphemous.
Grew up christian, started investigating. That did its job.
Opposite happened to me.
I am a lapsed Catholic... Just couldn't get over the child sex abuse scandal.
@thebrodys accidents happen
no worries
This is getting off topic for the room
For sure.
but its thanksgiving now.
If they didn't put so much emphasis in the Catholic structure as a component of salvation, they would have done themselves a favor in a modern context, yes. @TaLoN132
"They started it..."
I grew up Christian.. I donโt know what I believe tbh but I like to believe in heaven, an lost love ones looking down on us... Randomly jumping in here ๐๐ผโโ๏ธ
@TaLoN132 pedofiles are everywhere. More in sports than the catholic church, but noone is blaming soccer.
Catholicism is not a Christian religion..no matter how much people want to think it is
And Boy Scouts, apparently.
Itโs a nice thought
@Beth Heaven sounds like hell to me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV5w262XvCU&t
Not sure it invalidates the precepts though. 'No true Scotsman'
Until the 16th Century, it was the only (western) Christian religion.
@thebrodys every christian claims their version is the right one. It seems to be a huge part of abrahamittic religions to be the one with the right understanding.
Js behavior of authoritative adherents isn't the test. It fails spectacularly otherwise, anyway.
If pedophilia were some property of the faith, then you'd have a beef on those grounds.
Ground beef, if you will.
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