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[mpp5004]

So here's a question... would you put a bright cross on your lawn?
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Christmas is a holiday that is celebrated by almost all Americans. The celebration of the birth of baby Jesus draws many to their local churches for a special candle light service - whether they’re regular attenders or not. It’s hard to imagine not hearing Christmas music on the several stations playing 24 hours a day.

Most of us start the celebration by dusting off those boxes in our attics or garages filled with Christmas ornaments and decorations. Some passed down as family heirlooms and cherished family treasures.

We follow closely held family traditions - some by putting up the Christmas tree and decorations early - just after Thanksgiving, while others wait until Christmas eve to find that last, perfect tree and decorating it long into the evening.

Whatever your tradition, in more and more cases it includes Christmas lawn ornaments designed to dress up the outside of our homes to show our holiday cheer. Outdoor lawn ornaments used to be primarily Christmas lights and light strands hung along roof lines, around doors and windows and maybe on some outdoor trees or shrubs. In recent years however, the advent of simple to elaborate Christmas lawn ornaments consisting of everything from santa clause, reindeer, sleighs, trees and gift boxes to light poles, and helicopters!

Not only does the current crop of Christmas lawn ornaments include these items in a variety of sizes and shapes, they come with a variety of lighting options from traditional white, to red, green, blue - flashing, strobing and pulsing for all to see.

Some of the newer Christmas lawn ornaments include blow up items which include twelve feet tall snowmen and eight feet diameter snow globes with actual moving scenes inside.

Truly, Christmas lawn ornaments have become more elaborate, sophisticated and expensive (some topping the $500 mark) and many would say obnoxious as they grow in size and litter the Christmas holiday landscape.

While Christmas lawn ornaments of all shapes and styles are - I believe, designed to enhance out holiday cheer, most current offerings are missing the point. Christmas isn’t about santa clause, reindeer, snowmen and snow globes. It’s about the birth of Jesus Christ. It would seem therefore that a more fitting Christmas lawn ornament would be a Christmas Cross or some form of a Cross lawn ornament that more truly represents the Christ in Christmas we’re really celebrating.
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[Wheretogo]

wow... no offense or anything, but when ever people go on about christ and god and crap like that i always want to turn to them and say make me. Make me believe, make me pray and so on and so forth


i dunt think this belongs here either....

[munchkinprince]

it's in the religion threads. If you can find a more appropriate thread, what would you choose?

I don't think there was any portion of the original message that implied that the belief must be shoved down your throat. in fact, Christianity's saving grace is dependent on the individual's choice to accept Jesus.

But that's not the point of this thread. mpp5004 suggested changing the yuletide icon from a tree to a cross to be more direct with the original meaning of christmas.
First of all, December 25 was not a holy day to Christians until the Catholic church wanted to transmutate a holiday of pagans into a Christian holiday. The bible's depiction of Christ's birth eliminates a chance of Him being born in winter at all. If you recall, sheep were out and people were travelling over countrysides, but a Nazarene winter is far too cold to allow either. He was more likely born around March-ish.

Another reason to keep the tree is it's symbolic enough of Christianity as it is: the pines always face up and it shows abundant life(green) through tough times(winter).