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kwassa

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14. If you were a believer ....

Reply to Tanuki (Reply #10)

Tue Dec 20, 2016, 05:04 PM

Dec 2016

I think you would understand that there is a wide range of Christian belief and practices, and there isn't one way to celebrate that is inherently Christian, (although there are many Christians think they have the one-and-only true Christian way to believe). The author of this opinion piece certainly has an opinion, and that is fine and he is welcome to it. I don't place such restrictions on others in the way they chose to worship. Christmas Eve services are traditionally the big service for most churches, but to each their own. This is simply a custom.

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Friendly Fire in the War on Christmas: many churches cancelling their services this Sunday [View all] Tanuki Dec 2016 OP

I go to church Christmas eve, not Christmas day. hrmjustin Dec 2016 #1

same here chillfactor Dec 2016 #2

My point is not whether a religious service celebrating Christmas should be Tanuki Dec 2016 #6

That's interesting point. hrmjustin Dec 2016 #8

The Catholic Church's motto is practically "We Never Close." or it used to be anyway. nt TeamPooka Dec 2016 #13

Ours has multiple Christmas Eve services and Ilsa Dec 2016 #3

Makes me question the theological bases of these type of churches Retrograde Dec 2016 #4

Theological basis might be Calvinist. The Puritans canceled Christmas because of the pagan... Hekate Dec 2016 #12

So they are cancelling Christmas services because it's Christmas? What a bunch of freaking Fla Dem Dec 2016 #5

Proof of Christian hypocrisy as if any were needed. Coventina Dec 2016 #7

These services were not canceled. They were never scheduled. kwassa Dec 2016 #9

Did you even read the article, which is about regularly scheduled Tanuki Dec 2016 #10

If you were a believer .... kwassa Dec 2016 #14

See #6 above. Sorry that this disqualifies me as a "believer", Tanuki Dec 2016 #15

No Church the latest "self-inflicted" casualty... Historic NY Dec 2016 #11