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Everywhere and takes over Everything. Bowdlerizing carols is not the
way to make us feel more included. I would love to put the Christ back in Christmas and put it back in church where it belongs. Pax in terra, Sara I feel very much the way Sara does. As a non-Christian, I rather enjoyed seeing, and even participating in, Christmas celebrations with friends over the years but now it's become one big money making, commercial venture that starts too many months in advance of the holiday. I would like to see everyone celebrate whatever they want, however they want and wherever they want, but leave me out of it and stop trying to cover all bases just to be politically correct. There will always be someone who thinks it's not enough and calling it a holiday celebration simply won't change that fact. As a Christian, I agree entirely with Sara and Lucille. All that stuff in the mall has nothing to do with the festival of Christmas. Christmas does belong in church, and it belongs in hearts. Gather with people, share a meal. Raise a glass. Make some music. Tell stories. Give to those in need. Make peace. (hey...sounds like---Christmas, and Yule, and Hannukah, and....what any good people do when they want to celebrate). I'll celebrate any holiday with anybody, and hope you will do the same. The world needs a lot more celebrations. All the other stuff hurts people. Too much hype, too many expectations--and people who are disappointed, exhausted, indebted, and angry because something about their Christmas did not measure up to the ones on TV. Dawne |
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Sara ) writes:
On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 10:18:47 GMT, wrote: I really wondered what everyone thinks about all the "Happy Holiday" songs and etc? I saw some schoolchildren on tv the other night singing what SHOULD have been "We wish you a Merry Christmas" ... but now it's all "We wish you Happy Holidays" OK, that's really lame. BUT: as much as some people might like it to be so, there is no state sponsored or sanctioned religion in the US. For those of us who are not Christian, this time of year can be a royal PITA. Xmas (and that is a legitimate abbreviation) is Everywhere and takes over Everything. Bowdlerizing carols is not the way to make us feel more included. I would love to put the Christ back in Christmas and put it back in church where it belongs. Pax in terra, Sara This reminds me of another old joke. There was a Jewish family who were storekeepers. When they were asked what they did on Christmas Day, they replied, "We go down to our store, look at all the empty shelves, and scroll down scroll down scroll down sing 'What a friend we have in Jesus'" |
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"Brenda Lewis" wrote .. I'm with you. Those are both right up there on the "stupid ideas" list along with the whole inclusive language thing my church did back when I was in college. We use inclusive language--who would we want to exclude??? Dawne |
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"Brenda Lewis" wrote A very bright and well-churched young lady sat next to me in church yesterday. Before the service began she looked up at the video display which proclaimed the day to be the second Sunday of Advent. She turned to me and asked, "How can this be the second Sunday of Advent when it's only the first Sunday of December? Is it because Christmas is on a Sunday this year?" That stuff does confuse people (although.... how hard is it to count back 4 from Christmas and find the nearest Sunday??). I was reading through some material from a course on Anglican fundamentals offered by a Diocese in Wisconsin, and one of the benefits it stated was "you will never ever again not know how to figure out when Easter is." Dawne |
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We might not mean the same thing. The church I attended changed all the
hymns, scripture readings, etc. to make God (and any unnamed angels) gender-neutral. As if anyone in the church can prove it either way! All it did was make that which was familiar totally unrecognizable. The church changed back once the ultra-feminist associate pastor left. I also don't see much point in changing the words "brotherhood" and "fellowship" to anything else. Dawne Peterson wrote: "Brenda Lewis" wrote .. I'm with you. Those are both right up there on the "stupid ideas" list along with the whole inclusive language thing my church did back when I was in college. We use inclusive language--who would we want to exclude??? Dawne -- Brenda Bilge Queen of Puzzle Pirates |
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MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
i heard a man on fox news say yesterday that this whole brou-ha-ha over "Xmas-is verboten" is the radical right's knee-jerk reaction to to the radical left's persistant "politically correct" nonsense!!! they both seem to need to "one-up" each other on every, single issue!!! makes sense to me...... btw- MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!!!!!! |
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Easter is a bit trickier than counting back to find the start of Advent.
Interesting way to promote a course. I wonder what else it taught... Dawne Peterson wrote: That stuff does confuse people (although.... how hard is it to count back 4 from Christmas and find the nearest Sunday??). I was reading through some material from a course on Anglican fundamentals offered by a Diocese in Wisconsin, and one of the benefits it stated was "you will never ever again not know how to figure out when Easter is." -- Brenda Bilge Queen of Puzzle Pirates |
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"Brenda Lewis" wrote... We might not mean the same thing. The church I attended changed all the hymns, scripture readings, etc. to make God (and any unnamed angels) gender-neutral. As if anyone in the church can prove it either way! All it did was make that which was familiar totally unrecognizable. The church changed back once the ultra-feminist associate pastor left. I also don't see much point in changing the words "brotherhood" and "fellowship" to anything else. You are right, inclusive language about God is tricky. The pronouns about God in the lectionary we use are masculine, although, as a not particularly ultra feminist, I try and avoid the pronouns and say God wherever possible. (The first chapter of John, which I get to read Christmas Day, is a tad challenging!!) Sometimes moving to language that is clearly metaphoric helps, because, as you say, who really knows what God is, we can only compare God to things we know. "God cares for us like a father" rather than "is our father". After all, one of my favourite images is God gathering us like a mother hen gathers chicks under her wing, and no one (so far--but I may be being speciesist) has claimed this means God is a large chicken. Our most recent hymn book changed some language both for inclusive reasons and to eliminate some outdated views of the world---and with mixed results. Some works e.g. "the eyes of sinful men" becomes "our sinful human eyes". But it does require considerable care and respect for how the lines scan. Dawne |
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Brenda Lewis wrote:
A very bright and well-churched young lady sat next to me in church yesterday. Before the service began she looked up at the video display which proclaimed the day to be the second Sunday of Advent. She turned to me and asked, "How can this be the second Sunday of Advent when it's only the first Sunday of December? Is it because Christmas is on a Sunday this year?" It is no surprise that even "Christians" have secularized the season if the teachings of the church are so poor! Well, actually, she was close...it IS because Christmas is on a Sunday this year. This year is the longest possible Advent. And when you think of Advent calendars, the ones you buy generally start on December 1st and count down until the 25th. Even the ones in church stores! They're not liturgically accurate most of the time. Sue -- -- Susan Hartman/Dirty Linen The Magazine of Folk and World Music http://www.dirtylinen.com |
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