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.

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!

wrote:
Just out of curiosity -- 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". And then
Saturday Night Live did a spoof on the whole thing too. Frankly, I'm
apalled. Have people forgotten Christmas is the celebration of the
birth of Christ? Or is it all now just a reason to give presents? Oh
and my step-daughter came to visit from college this weekend, and
she's upset that history books no longer can print A.D. or B.C. -- now
it all has to be CE or BCE (common era and before common era). Sorry,
I'll shut up now. Except to say MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Jennifer/Poetta


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