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"Crime: How Will It Be Stopped?"
No matter how you look at it, the crime rates in this country are horrible. But what do we expect when we take God out of the schools? If we teach kids that they evolved from animals, how else do we expect them to behave? But if we teach them that they are special beings created in God's image by a loving Creator and also teach them to love each other as God loves us, then the crime rate would not be so high.
T.K., Del Rey, California
"Christmas: The Curious Origins of a Popular Holiday"
Your article on the origins of Christmas was so truthful. I pray for all to see the truth of this pagan holiday and come to know that the Feast of Booths [Tabernacles] is more accurately the time of our Messiah's birth.
S.S., Internet
I would like to cancel my subscription to your magazine. There have been other articles that have made me feel this way, but the clincher was your piece on Christmas. I will absolutely not stop celebrating Christmas because of a single secular book's notations. To me, what better time than Christmas to show how the Lord came here to earth to save us.
K.J.H., Lakewood, Ohio
On pages 18-20 of the November/December issue, the legitimacy of Christmas is attacked. Most Christians do not believe that Jesus was born on December 25th. Many, in fact, realize that this was a pagan holiday in the ancient world—one that was usurped intentionally by the church for the celebration of Christ's birth. But to conclude that Christians should shun the holiday as a pagan festival is beyond both Scripture and plain reason. To use Old Testament prohibitions against idolatry as an argument against Christmas is a poor application of Scripture.
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