December 28th, 2006 @ 22:15CT by kangsta
I usually don’t harp on my views, simply because I try to keep this blog light-hearted and rant-tastic, but I felt since it is the “holly days” and people seem to forget what it is all about, I would share this video.
Oh, and to elaborate. I am saying, if one believes in God then it is then they must believe in Christ, unless they claim to be Jewish or Muslims. Otherwise, they might as well take a rock int he backyard and call it Jerry, Savior of Sins. In so far as that belief system, that you call yourself a Christian, then you must accept the tenements of the faith as well. NOT the religious aspects like the Catholic or Lutheran churches, but moreso what the Bible says–the scriptural authority on the religion.
Even an atheist can accept these terms: be STRONG in your beliefs and try to save people you see. It does not mean bible thump people to death, but try to introduce Christ to them, but you cannot FORCE it upon them. See, if you take a half-hearted approach to religion, and claim to believe in Christ, but do not take the scripture nor the concepts of heaven and hell seriously, you are a half-hearted Christian.
People fail to confront their own belief systems. You are either (a) agnostic - no-knowledge meaning “does not know” there if there is a god (b) atheist - no belief or “does not believe” in god or (c) a believer in a faith. Whatever it comes down to, do not be weak in your faith. I’m not saying to be stubborn, nor is this man, but being passionate about your beliefs is admirable, and if you cruelly believe you are right, then be passionate, why not? If you believed you had the answer to salvation, then would it not be best to spread it?
Oh and as far as the XMas crap goes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xmas
The word “Christ” and its compounds, including “Christmas”, have been abbreviated for at least the past 1,000 years, long before the modern “Xmas” was commonly used. “Christ” was often written as “XP” or “Xt”; there are references in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as far back as 1021 AD. This X and P arose as the uppercase forms of the Greek letters χ and ρ), used in ancient abbreviations for Χριστος (Greek for “Christ”), and are still widely seen in many Eastern Orthodox icons depicting Jesus Christ. The labarum, an amalgamation of the two Greek letters rendered as ☧, is a symbol often used to represent Christ in Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox Christian Churches.[1]
Some people believe that the term is part of an effort to “take Christ out of Christmas” or to literally “cross out Christ”;[2] it is also seen as evidence of the secularization of Christmas, as a symptom of the commercialization of the holiday (as the abbreviation has long been used by retailers). It may also be used as a vehicle to be more inclusive, see political correctness.
The occasionally felt belief that the “X” represents the cross Christ was crucified on has no basis in fact; regardless, St Andrew’s Cross is X-shaped, but Christ’s cross was probably shaped like a T or a †. Indeed, X-as-chi was associated with Christ long before X-as-cross could be, since the cross as a Christian symbol developed later. (The Greek letter Chi Χ stood for “Christ” in the ancient Greek acrostic ΙΧΘΥΣ ichthys.) While some see the spelling of Christmas as Xmas a threat, others see it as a way to honor the martyrs. The use of X as an abbreviation for “cross” in modern abbreviated writing (e.g. “Kings X” for “Kings Cross”) may have reinforced this assumption.
