Comments on: More Christmas Synchronicity

By: Nicole

Nicole — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:47:35 +0000

Mark — I don’t know about Protestants in general, but there are certainly Christians who do not think kindly on the church of Rome … I seem to remember one preacher recently referring to the Catholic Church as the whore of Babylon

By: Mark in Boston

Mark in Boston — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:54:03 +0000

Protestants used to claim that Catholics were idolators with their crucifixes and statues.

Whether they still make a big deal of it or not I don’t know, but I have never seen an image of Jesus or any saint in a Methodist, Congregationalist, or Baptist church, except maybe for an illustration in the Bible in the pew.

By: thwgt

thwgt — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:54:53 +0000

@ Tom T. (10) - So true. Get’s a little confusing, though. Can’t quite figure out how some folks can use Leviticus to abominate homosexuality whilst stuffing their mouths with ham and shrimp.

By: RaleighRob

RaleighRob — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:24:22 +0000

@Oosten (#11)– I LOVE that comic. So true…so true.

By: mkilby

mkilby — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:47:03 +0000

@ Mark in Boston (8) - A well known (German) comedian recently directed an excellent line against both excessive commericalism and religious ignorance. A rough translation: “No, Santa Claus was NOT nailed to the Christmas tree…”

By: Nicole

Nicole — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:38:15 +0000

Matthew 5:17 - 18 - “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled.”

Tim — at the risk of turning this into a religous discussion — If as you say the NT did away with the strictures of the OT, then why do so many preachers turn to OT when condemning homosexuality ? Yes, I do know there are NT passages that are interpeted to refer to homosexaulity as well, but we almost never hear them quoted.

By: Ooten Aboot

Ooten Aboot — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:38:11 +0000

S. P Charles, please see Retail for 12/23/09:

http://www.thestar.com/comics?feature_id=Retail&feature_date=2009-12-23

Christian, it’s not quite “freudenschade” either, because the emotion involved is not sorrow.

By: Tom T.

Tom T. — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:21:50 +0000

Remember too that the New Testament does away with many of the strictures of the Old.

By: Taigan

Taigan — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 03:48:23 +0000

On the Jeremiah 10 comic, in the artist’s blog (http://shortpacked.livejournal.com/577472.html) he admits he’s taking the quote out of context. Read the whole thing and it’s clearly about making false (carved) gods: idolatry.

Still doesn’t change the fact that ancient Christians appropriated the mid-winter’s festival wholesale, including changing Jesus’s birthday to match.

By: Mark in Boston

Mark in Boston — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:53:32 +0000

“They fasten it with nails and with hammers” — could that refer to making something out of the tree?

Like for instance a cross?

And fastening it to the top of your church?

Does Jeremiah 10 predict and condemn Christians?