So I have to get this off my chest before i have any chance of getting any homework done. I have a few questions for all my friends out there. You know that I am a Christian but I am not by any means a Person that comforms just to fit in, Especially in Church.
I have been thinking about alot of things and recently I have been thinking about how most of my Christian Friends HATE, I mean Freaking HATE Halloween. I personally Love the idea of getting dressed up in a costume and passing out candy or scaring the crap out of kids. It makes me happy and what other holiday do you get to go to peoples houses that you don't know and bug them for candy or start a conversation with your neighbor that you never see?
I asked my pastor about Halloween or All Hallows Eve and it is from Catholic decent about All Saints day and presuming All hallows eve is the one day a year where the "devil" roams the earth!!! I know that some cultures put food on dead relatives graves because they think that there dead relatives come back on Halloween and they want to show respect. Hey I appreciate these beliefs, if nothing else some homeless people get some free food. But really Christians......get a brain.......from what I understand about the devil, he roams around when ever the hell he wants to and it is not only on Halloween! and i admit some people take Halloween to the extreme worshiping the devil and such, oh well. If they get struck by lightening from being an idiot and calling upon the dark lord to sell their soul, that is there own mistake. Hopefully they will see the light but not everyone hears the Good News and is set free. I'm not being mean, I'm just being realistic. If you truly believe that Jesus will set you free and you are protected then you don't have to worry about the devil, so get off other Christians backs who do like to celebrate it. If you are on so much of a Halloween bashing kick, then you should (if you do these things) Stop talking to your dead relatives every time you feel a presence in the room or talking to a picture of your dead relative, it states very clear in the bible do not speak with the dead, so guess what? you stepped out of Gods plan and sinned and now that you sinned the devil has a legal right to torment you. OH SNAP!!! Stop being stupid!
The only thing that I have found about dressing up is where it says not to cross dress, and since they didn't have pants back then, what is considered cross dressing? I looked it up and what distinguished men from woman was that woman worn long togas or what ever you want to call them and men wore shorter ones so it was easier for them to work, so are we cross dressing ladies when we wear a skirt that is cut above our knees? Hmmmmm..... that's something to think about isn't it? To go along with dressing up and feeling good about ourselves, Pride is a sin unless you are boasting in God. So when we pretty ourselves up with make up and beautiful clothes, we take pride in ourselves don't we? So is it a sin to feel pride in our appearances? shouldn't the people who said that if you aren't a size 2 with designer purses and shoes, with the latest in make up and OMG don't you wanna look hot for your man? Instead of be yourself , and trust in the Lord, because only he can satisfy your needs. Need to be Shot? Seriously if we can get away from the pride in ourselves, then we can get back to the main event........... Jesus. We as Christians really need a reality check and a V8 slap from the Lord to get our acts together.
Another thing is we as Christians Celebrate the Birth of Jesus as Christmas on December 25th, if you didn't do your homework about Christmas you would find out that there is a huge debate about when Jesus was really born and some say September, and back int he old days the Christians started integrating pagan traditions with a Christmas tree and yule log in order to get more converts.
The same thing with Easter, we as Christians celebrate it as the day that Christ arose from the dead. but little do you know that when you go to that Easter egg hunt on the Saturday before Easter Sunday and the Easter eggs you are filling for your kids on Easter morning are actually a pagan tradition to signify fertility and the goddess ester. Talk about practicing two religions,It was also used to get more converts to Christianity.
So here you are in the dark setting presents under your Christmas tree and coloring eggs, feeling very confident that you are not sinning and feeling confident about telling other Christians what they are doing wrong. Self Righteousness is not from the Lord, you are entertaining the devil and before you get all pissed at me for saying these things, I have never once said i know it all. You on the other hand that is pissed beyond all
recognition from these words I am writing, better check and make sure that the anger you are feeling is righteous anger from the Lord and not just your own Pride being hurt.
Love it! Great argument!
ReplyDeleteThank you Lavena! I am glad that you like it
ReplyDeleteHehe give them hell ...so to speak
ReplyDeletehahahaha:) I love you Michael
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