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Your Christmas Traditions

HS Mom in NC

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Your Christmas Traditions  

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  1. 1. Which of these Christmas Traditions do you participate in?

    • Cutting down a live Christmas tree
      49
    • Setting up an artificial Christmas tree
      151
    • Sending Christmas cards
      110
    • Filling Christmas stockings
      226
    • Setting up a Nativity display
      155
    • Being part of a Christmas play or musical performance
      64
    • Traveling to see friends/family
      79
    • Putting up ourdooor Christmas decorations
      138
    • Special Christmas meal
      207
    • Special Christmas church service
      125
    • Advent/Saints Day traditions in your home or with friends/family
      72
    • Advent/Saints Day traditions in your church
      49
    • Birthday cake/candles and birthday song for Jesus
      19
    • Crackers (wrapped gifts originating in Britian?)
      30
    • Bonfire and or fireworks
      4
    • Reading in your home the Bible passages about the coming of the Messiah/Jesus Christ's birth
      103
    • Reading at church Bible Passages about the coming of the Messiah/Jesus Christ's birth
      104
    • Baking/cooking special treats
      219
    • Watching Christmas movies, plays, musical performances with secular themes
      199
    • Watching Christmas movies, plays, musical performances with relgious themes
      121

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MercyA

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Just out of curiosity, and if you don't mind sharing, what do you find objectionable about the singing happy birthday?

Is it the fact that Christ wasn't actually born on that date? Or maybe that you want Christmas to be different from and more special than 'ordinary' birthdays? Or something else?

 

I'm also not Denise in Florida, but I don't care for the "Happy Birthday Jesus" cakes and singing, either. Yes, we can and should celebrate the fact that "the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us." However, singing "Happy Birthday" to the one who is "the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end†seems to me a little irreverent. Also, Christmas isn't Jesus' birthday. (I intend no disrespect to those who choose to do this and have no doubt of their good intentions.)

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