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"4,000 Years of Christmas?"

I wanted to thank you for your recent article on the Christmas holiday. I read about the true origin of Christmas for the first time in your magazine last year. I never knew before that our Christmas traditions were rooted in pagan customs. I was so surprised that I had to research it for myself. But I found everything you had printed to be true. I no longer celebrate Christmas. I do not want to participate in anything that is associated with, adopted from, or rooted in pagan customs or idolatry. The Bible explicitly forbids such relationships.

But what has surprised me more is the number of Christians who do know this and it doesn't bother them in the least! I have actually had fellow Christians tell me that it is not considered lying to teach your children about Santa Claus. I just wish the rest of the world would open their eyes and see Christmas for what it really is and stop trying to justify it.

—M.M., Chester, Georgia

As a Southern Baptist and born-again Christian, I have enjoyed your magazine.

But one thing I see disturbs me. Too many of your articles are approached purely from the intellectual side. Your article on Christmas was like this. Maybe Christmas and Easter came from pagan rituals, but isn't it wonderful that God has through Christians defeated Satan and turned them into Christian holidays? Many, many things we do are spiritual and make no sense to the secular person. We must let God lead even when it doesn't make sense to us, and if we do, we'll be triumphant. It does not matter in the least that December 25 was not the true birthday of Christ.

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