Tuesday, December 06, 2005

Put Christ Back into Christmas--the third or fourth time

From the music sharity, Music You (Probably) Won't Hear Anywhere Else

"Put Christ Back Into Christmas" (A)

"But Christ was never in Christmas to begin with!" (B) is the standard response to this standard sentiment. Let's try to figure out what this interesting claim actually means, prior to dealing with the "Put Christ back in(to) Christmas" plea (A).

When people say (B), they mean that Christmas is not mentioned in the Bible, nor is Christ's Birthday given a date (you'd think the Bible-writers would have had the courtesy to give the hour, minute, and second, too). Nor was Christ's Birthday important to Christians at first. Plus, the whole December 25th bit has more to do with the Winter Solstice and Saturnalia and Mithra than the Baby Jesus. And the Puritans didn't care for Christmas. Etc. All true.


Includes a lot of great christmas mp3's, (including a track "Put Christ Back into Christmas" 1950) so go check it out

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