Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Should Christians Celebrate Christs Birth? on December 25TH?

You don't know that.

Why be so nit picky?

He died for our sins, what part of That is hard to understand?

You've got to understand that Christmas as we know it did not appear until the 19th Century. At various times and for various reasons, the practice was either not a big deal, somewhat discouraged, or actually outlawed. The Roundheads outlawed Christmas celebrations in the mid-16th Century. It interfered with their mandatory monthly day of solemn prayer and repentance that they were trying to promulgate. A lot of the early Colonials either did not pay attention to it or tried to proscribe it.

You have to thank the Germans, and specifically Prince Albert for reintroducing Christmas into the English-speaking world. He brought his Christmas traditions to the court of Victoria with things like the Christmas Tree coming into fashion, and that percolated to America.

What's more, it wasn't the whole of Germany that was into Christmas. Germany itself did not exist as a political entity and each state had its own way of doing things. As an example, you can look back to the Hessians and the Battle of Trenton. It is untrue that the Hessians were all drunk and hungover on Christmas Morning. Washington just assumed this. His only reference was Catholic Germans who did celebrate the holiday. The English similarly used it as an excuse for partying. The truth is the Hessians were all Protestants and did not celebrate the holiday. Instead, their lack of top fitness on the day of the battle was a month of constant harassment from guerrilla activity. They had been sleeping in their full kit for weeks. Their combat readiness was so attenuated that when the storm hit on Christmas Eve, Rall, the Commander had everyone stand down and rest and did not send out any patrols. Washington made the right guess, but it was for the wrong reasons.

Have to celebrate it when the worky job gives you time off to do it.

This ain’t Europe, we dont get 2 months off for every holiday

I'm more worried about what the wind direction will be on opening day than this......

Don't be so quick to assume they're getting a good deal. First off, the presents the kids get up until the last night are usually pretty stingy. I had a Jewish friend that got gum on the first night. Your big present comes on the 8th night, but it's just one present. You and your siblings get to play with a Dredel (top) and sing Hanukah songs. When I would go visit my Jewish friend, I always came away feeling like he and his sisters were getting cheated.

What's happened in a lot of Jewish families in my son's generation is that they have both. There's the menorah and the lighting of candles going on upstairs with the grandparents, but they decorate the rec room in the basement with a Christmas tree and do the whole XMAS schmeer and hide it from everyone. It's a guilty pleasure like eating ham.

Once you acknowledge that the Wise Men were from the far East (China) then it all falls into place.

Where was he born then?

I celebrate it every day. I’m thankful and grateful for His birth every single day. When He was born is irrelevant, that He ‘was’ born is what truly matters to me.

Indeed.

Damn right!!

I’ll do kid’s birthdays and christmas when weather permits. Just leave me a plate with foil over it for T-gibbins. That’s usually hot rifle-rut week.
All my kids birthdays fall on dove opener or bow opener. 😃

I have it on good sources that there was one room open at The Holiday Inn.

Totally agree.That is way too simple for Ass Hat and Slappy Crapper to understand.

January 6TH.

FWIW:

Let’s look at what the Bible says in Luke 2:8-9. “Now there were in the same country shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. And behold, an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were greatly afraid.”

According to Bible commentator Adam Clarke, it was customary for the Jews to send their sheep to pasture from the spring until early October. As the cold winter months began, the flocks would return from the fields for shelter and warmth. Since the shepherds were still tending their flocks in the fields around Bethlehem it can be concluded that the angels announced the news of Jesus’ birth no later than October.

https://www.bibleinfo.com/en/questions/when-was-jesus-born

Mike, my take on the angles appearing to the shepherds is, they were shunned by the powers that be because they did not attend the temple.

There are good reasons to believe Jesus was born on/pretty close to December 25th.

Next someone will ask how you get three days and three nights out of Friday afternoon to Sunday morning.