[EMAIL PROTECTED] (The Velvet Elvis) wrote: >> >> Case in point- me. I was raised Catholic. You say that beliefs don't harm, >> but in fact they do. I was raised being told LIES. > >I agree you were. > >> Most Christians don't realize this, but try being told one thing your entire >> life, a lie, and then waking up and having all these hang-up, false >doctrines, >> and illusions implanted in your mind. > >I most definatley realized this, false doctrines, the Trinity, started by the >Catholic church, comes to mind. > >Here comes Satan Claus here comes Satan Claus.. Did I say Satan Claus? Yes >I did. Telling your kids lies about a fat man dressed up in a devils suit. >Hang up your green wreaths and trees to ward off evil spirits. To boast,show >off, and show how "good" make sure you help people during this time of the >year, the season for giving. > >There is no season for giving. Give all the time. If your kid needs a pair >of shoes, do not make them wait for christmas, just give them the shoes. > >DO NOT LIE TO YOUR KIDS!!! > >Do not get sucked into the Satan Claus mess. > >Yes, son I lied to you, there is no Santa Claus. He is really Satan Claus, >he comes to dilute the real reason for the season. The time when we >celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, Oh, but there is another twist, we do >not know when Jesus was born. In fact the day we celebrate his birthday was >changed from January 6th to December 25th. > >If you really want to go deep it can be shown he was born around September >22nd 3BC. This would be a very indepth long paper. I will email it to >anyone that wants it. There are some prophecies inthe Bible people have >figured out recently that will blow your socks off. > >His birthday is irrelevant though. Celebrate and praise Jesus everyday. > >Learn not the way of the heathen. > >"In Rome, in the third century A.D. sun-worship, became the dominant official >creed, paving the road for the ultimate triumph of Judaeo-Christian >monotheism. So strong was the belief in the Invincible Sun (Sol Invictus) >that for example Constantine I (d.337), himself at first a devotee of the sun >cult, found it, indeed perfectly compatible with his pro-Christian sympathies >to authorize his own portrayal as Helios. And in 354 the ascendant Christian >church in the reign of his pious but unsavory son,Constantius II, found it >prudent to change the celebration of the birth of Jesus from the traditional >date (January 6) to December 25, in order to combat the pagan Sun god's >popularityhis "birthday" being December 25." - Guy Cramer > >I quit going to church for a number of years, but I found(or did it find me) a >church that is straight Bible. > >All it took for me was someone to ask me to go to their church. I had deemed >them all social gatherings and quit going. If she was nice enough to ask me to >go I would nice enough to go. > >The very second I walked into that church I knew I was home. > >Sometimes you just got to shout: THANK YOU JESUS > >Some day Velvet Elvis, he will find you too. > >Norm Joe E. Dees Poet, Pagan, Philosopher ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Access your e-mail anywhere, at any time. Get your FREE BellSouth Web Mail account today! http://webmail.bellsouth.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
