{"id":316,"date":"2009-03-14T09:07:55","date_gmt":"2009-03-14T13:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/Correspondence\/?p=316"},"modified":"2009-03-14T09:07:55","modified_gmt":"2009-03-14T13:07:55","slug":"christmas-and-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/316\/christmas-and-easter\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas and Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n

What are we to do about Christmas & Easter? They had heathen roots, you know. Are we suppose to celebrate them?<\/span><\/p>\n

P. W.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Well, since I kinda like fat jolly elves, I do the Christmas thing. But I’m not really into pink bunny rabbits, so Easter I can leave off. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Sorry, but I could not resist replying on this issue: I am not into pink bunny rabbits either, but those chocolate ones with the big ears are really good! You mean you have never found a chocolate bunny rabbit in your refrigerator with the ears missing?! \ud83d\ude42 Well, I know what to get you for Easter. Don’t be surprised if the poor little bunny comes to you deaf.<\/span><\/p>\n

S~<\/span><\/p>\n

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Thanks, <\/em>Sandy<\/em>. I needed that. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Sheeesh! The way some people fear them, you would think that society’s holidays and customs were the devil himself. Everything in our culture had heathen roots; we can’t avoid all things on earth.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Don’t we have better things to pray about than Santa Claus? You know, I still cannot forget that minister down near Charlotte who, a few years back, waged a vigorous campaign against Barney, the purple dinosaur. Well . . . um . . . Shoot, I may as well go ahead and get it off my chest . . . I liked watching Barney with my kids. I never felt they were going to get demon possessed while singing “Yankee Doodle” with a dancing dinosaur. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The way I look at it, Christmas presents and chocolate (yes, I forgot about the brown bunnies) can be a lot of fun, and that’s about as deep as I care to get with all that stuff.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

jdc<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Amen, Pastor\u00a0John and Sandy!<\/span><\/p>\n

I like the time\u00a0I\u00a0get off\u00a0from work\u00a0with a lot of those holidays \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 and the fellowship we have during those days as well.\u00a0\u00a0I will take all they will give me.<\/span><\/p>\n

Stuart<\/span><\/p>\n

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Now, how would we feel, Stuart, if we preached against Christmas, Easter, Halloween, etc., and then the <\/em>US<\/em> Congress heard it and believed that\u00a0doctrine and did away with\u00a0all holidays?\u00a0 Now, wouldn’t we feel stupid!\u00a0 If those who preach against such holidays\u00a0want to show everybody they really believe what they preach, then let them refused to have any of those days off!\u00a0 Let them all wortk straight through them all and show the world\u00a0how happy a life that is.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

P<\/span>astor John.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi Pastor John, What are we to do about Christmas & Easter? They had heathen roots, you know. Are we suppose to celebrate them? P. W. =========== Well, since I kinda like fat jolly elves, I do the Christmas thing. But I’m not really into pink bunny rabbits, so Easter I can leave off. Thanks. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}