Tom Branch - Roads of Faith

Some days it sucks gettingout of bed. First news of the day is an actor from one of my favorite Tv shows just died. But that is life. It just sucks to hear it. Now I will have a new purpose in watching the dvd's.

Onto the post or column as it has been referred to here lately. Is "The world vs. Christmas" It seems that everywhere that the word "Christmas" is offensive and being taken down everywehre. I ti s being replaced with Hapy Holidays. But the heart of it all is to please everyone and becoem anti-christian attitudes for the holidays.

So as a christian should I be upset? That the word christmas is being replaced?

At first I would have and have said yes I should be angry. I don;t go around and tell other religions that they must rename their holidays? Tell a jew no more Hanuakauh or a muslim no more Ramadahn. See how far you walk away with your life.

But that is not what this is about. I feel something deeper than this and beyond worrying that the holiday is being replaced with a generic term. Just seeing the traffic and want lists of ewveryone is scaring me. Even more who do we worship at Christmas? As christians it should be CHrist right? But it is a fat guy in a red suit. Not convinced? This season teh hot item is a new SOny Playstation 3. People are getting shot and hurt over this. Greed has taken us all in the name of the almighty dollar for the corporations. We worship idols during this season.

If Christmas is about celebrating the birth of Christ then why do we say Merry Christmas? How much of this holiday is holy? Holy, holi....sounds like a hidden theme there doesn't it?

Now if we truely celebrate this, what does it look like? And if this is a religions not a sinful holiday then we have room to be very upset that we cannot proclaim christmas in the streets. Yet this seems to be in the public.

The war on christianaity is heating up. Even amongst other christians. The world is rising against us. My heart has been growing a heavy weight upon it to see that this war is no longer on the battle field. In fact we may want to shift it to the homes, to our neighbors, towards one another. This is the time to build one another up on an intimate level. Grow deep with one another and prepare for the upcoming troubles.

Even in this holiday season, I hope that we all not get caught up in shopping and wanting that we forget to love and share CHRIST.

Am I upset they are replacing Christmas with happy holidays? Not right now, no. I cannot be angry at this. I don't know exactly how biblical this is. But in my heart I see this season lately away from God. Society in general that is. We are being shown intolerance for one another and more about our own rights above others.

For the world this is the giving season, the only time of year you have to do this. This is the greed and want season. For Christians it should be a time to reflect upon Christ's birth.

(I will spellcehck this later)

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