That way they'd have both a holiday in the Spring, and one in the Fall. :) \nPSALMS 14:1\n...The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God...
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Heh. Heh. I didn't know athiests believed in holidays. Oh wait, that's Jehovah's Witnesses. My bad. LOL
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Easter was a pagen holiday, for fertility. I know this is cliche, but have you ever heard the term "Multipling like rabbits"? Ergo - Bunnies. I am not entirely certain that is why the bunny is there, but I am certain easter was a fertility holiday.
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Yes, it could have. At least God did it last week instead of next week so we could have our Turkey.
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After one devastating year when many had died another summer was looking bad with drought. They decided to gather together to pray for rain because it was almost to late. At a time when things are usually dry or a storm the Lord sent a gentle rain that saved the crops and them. They felt compelled to then call for a day of Thanksgiving to God for granting them their request.
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it's going to be like a halloween of sorts i think. or like 911. non-christians are going to take the symbolism of the numbers to their head and start thinking of evil to do. christians don't have to worry as we have God and will end up in heaven if something horrible did happen...however, i'm going to pray a little extra hard on that day, like my friend suggested today. that seems about right. take care and God bless!
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chanukah isn't a very important holiday :) the days don't really represent anything, the reason its 8 days long is because chanukah celebrates when the maccabees won the freedom of the jews from the greek oppressors who forbade them to practice judaism and who were defiling the temple with idols and sacrifices of unkosher animals. when the maccabees won back their freedom they cleaned up the temple and lit the menorah with oil that should have lasted for only 1 day, but instead the candles burnt for 8 days, and voila you get 8 days of chanukah
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That would be thanksgiving
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Yep. And Easter is a pagan celebration of spring.
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Many of the customs were borrowed from Pagan traditions.  It does not mean Xmas and Easter are pagan holidays.  Where did you get this stuff??\n\nYou can celebrate anything you want.  It's a free country.
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Yeah, it probably should be called Christmas vacation.  But those who are Jewish & those who celebrate Kwanzaa also have their holiday's around that time, so it COULD go either way.\n\n"Happy non-denominational religion-derived possible-holiday winter break."
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it did not happen on friday... and there was no pagan holiday of easter..\nstudy passover.. then note he was to raise on the jewish holiday of ''first fruits""...\n\nhe was jewish he did not follow the pagan holidays of the time...
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YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!!!\nIt is not a pagan holiday and non-believers have NO RIGHT to celebrate or to try and change this Holiday to suit there needs, for it is 'OUR' (Christians) religious Holiday after all.\n\np.s. James P.  All of the founding fathers were Christians.  Furthermore; the observation of a Federal Holiday has nothing to do with govt and laws but merely that the majority of the public (claim to be Christian) want the Holidays to be observed.  (hence when it is deemed a Federal Holiday, people are not forced to work on those particular days. i.e. Martin Luther King Day, Easter, July 4th, Kwanzaa, Good Friday, etc.  they are preserved for a myriad of faiths and observances! So, they should not be changed for any reason.  I just find it ironic that so many faiths outside of the Christian faith celebrate this Holiday.  You will not find a 'true' Christian that observes another faiths holiday!
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that's what happens when the Romans take and change a religion. but with out them it would have died out and we wouldn't have Christmas's or Easter or any of that as they are really old roman pagan holidays that were at first banned, then reworked by the new Cristian religion.
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So you read my answer, didn't you? Thanks...\n\nWe don't celebrate it coz our Great Prophet Mohammed (pbuh) didn't celebrate it, so as his followers, we don't celebrate it too. \n\nIf we'd like to thank to God, we dont have to wait until thanksgiving or other holidays. We can do that in our Shalat, in our pray, or by sharing with the others, at anytimr
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Because most people look at it as a Holy day...\n\nAnd on the 7th day he rested which was a Sunday.\n\nI think only Federal and State employees only enforce this. We are a Nation under God.
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I don't celebrate either one. I choose as Paul said not to " esteem one day above the next." I treat each day as a day to love and praise my Father for sending Jesus to show me the Way! The days you mention are man's teachings not the teachings of The Spirit of God.
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If you were to read this account to the average Israeli today and ask him what time of year this could be, he would likely answer, “Sometime between April and October.” Why? The answer is simple. From November to March is the cold, rainy season in Israel, and December 25 is certainly in the wintertime. Shepherds would not be living out-of-doors, keeping watch over their flocks in the fields at night. Bethlehem, where Jesus was born, is located in the higher elevations and is just a few miles from Jerusalem. Even in years when the weather is less extreme, it is quite cold there at night during the winter.—Micah 5:2; Luke 2:15.\nA look into history at the time of Jesus’ birth sheds light on the fact that he was not born during December’s snow. Jesus’ mother, Mary, although in an advanced stage of pregnancy, had to travel from her home in Nazareth to Bethlehem. She and Joseph did so to meet the requirements of the census decreed by the Roman ruler Caesar Augustus. (Luke 2:1-7) The Jewish populace, resenting the Roman rule and its heavy taxation, was already on the verge of rebellion. Why would Rome unnecessarily irritate them by requiring many to travel to be registered during the most difficult and even treacherous winter weather? Is it not far more reasonable that this would have been decreed for a season that lends itself to travel, such as spring or autumn?\n\nRECORDED EVIDENCE OF COLD WINTERS\nEzra 10:9 reports that it can get cold during the winter months as recorded in the scripture:\n"  So all the men of Judah and Benjamin collected themselves together at Jerusalem within three days, that is, in the ninth month on the twentieth [day] of the month, and all the people kept sitting in the open place of the house of the [true] God, shivering because of the matter and on account of the showers of rain.  "\nDecember corresponds to the latter part of the ninth month (Chislev) of the ancient Hebrew calendar and the early part of the tenth month (Tebeth). With this in mind, consider the account in Ezra 10:9 about something that happened just a few miles from Bethlehem:\n\nTRUTH\nAs for December the 25th being designated as Christ's birthday, substituting of factual evidence with something known as a falsehood shows disregard for the wholesome truth at the very least. What other truths could be substituted also for falsehoods.