But the very idea of it is wrong, do you even know the origins?
I know about the origins, the Romans used to worship the sun on December 25 to celebrate the return of longer days, but Julius I told them that was wrong and they should worship Jesus instead. So December 25 became a day to worship Jesus and celebrate his birth, instead of worship a ball of burning gas. The date used to be that of a pagan holiday, but it was "rededicated" to the Lord. I'd say that's a good thing.
Those people weren't even christians, who is this Julius you are mentioning, I think you mean Constantine or Aurelian.
But Holy is set apart, apart from this world apart from Sin.
We are set apart from this world and from sin. We still sin sometimes, because of the influence of the flesh, but our souls are saved and being sanctified. We are covered by Jesus' righteousness and set apart by God, therefore we are holy. God is holy in a different way, the second definition was "sacred." God is not set apart for God because He is God, He is set apart from everything because He made everything.
And such a vile thing as a "Nation" is surely full of Sin, and henceforth is evil.
Far from it, there was Sinterklaus or something like that in Pagan Germany.
I just looked it up, it's spelled Sinterklaas, but anyway, it's not pagan. Sinterklaas is the German spelling of Saint Nicholas, who was a Christian that gave money to the poor. A good person spreading the love of Jesus, but today he is remembered as Santa Claus bringing presents to all the good little children. He was a Christian man, but he has been incorporated into our culture in a non-Christian way.
No, something different than, this was before Nicholas, plus I reject the Saint thing. But that doesn't mean we should celebrate it. The Bible fulfills everything we do, the Lord's Supper commemorates his sacrifice, and we are told to worship him everyday, not just one day. is someone a Heretic for doing Christmas, No but its still wrong.
Ancestry.com for most of it, I believe. Lots and lots of research into local/federal records. We compiled it in... 2007, I believe, for my grandparents' fiftieth anniversary. We traced my paternal grandmother and grandfather's lines.
Called it!
Yes, my parents use that thing too, I listen and try to learn a little, we have a Coat of Arms ya know, and possibly a relative who fought at Hastings, but were not sure.
We didn't want to increase power of the ussr. Stalins main goal (like all Russian foreign policy) was to get as much land inbetween the west and Moscow, to prevent anyone from rapidly invading and taking over the country.
So you're justifying conquering lands by saying "it's to protect Moscow"?
Did we kill a lot of ppl? Yes. A lot of ppl died from bad policy. I don't know but when ever I speak to my friends (all my friends are from eastern countries) none of them think that the mass deaths were all that impactful. Yeah I know we are very cold people . I understand we messed up really badly, but we understood our mistakes and fixed them post stalin's reign. You cant blame one individual for the countrys entire history.
One hundred million people were murdered by communist regimes across the world. Forty-nine million people can be attributed to a single man in the Soviet Union. You believe that one hundred million lives are not that impactful because the Soviet Union lifted a couple million out of poverty and built factories? That's beyond cold.
We didn't want to increase power of the ussr. Stalins main goal (like all Russian foreign policy) was to get as much land inbetween the west and Moscow, to prevent anyone from rapidly invading and taking over the country.
Churchill and Stalin divided up Europe and Stalin kept his part of the Bargain.
His part of the bargain was to ensure democratic elections and freedom. Those didn't happen.
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Jesus fulfilled those things. But he didn't fulfill music, that doesn't make any sense. We can praise the Lord any way we want, as long as it's honest praise, it's okay.
We aren't told to worship in that way.
In Psalms, we are. Jesus never told us to stop.
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One hundred million people were murdered by communist regimes across the world. Forty-nine million people can be attributed to a single man in the Soviet Union. You believe that one hundred million lives are not that impactful because the Soviet Union lifted a couple million out of poverty and built factories? That's beyond cold.
America had possibly more blood than that.
Ehm... you wish. Even if we did, we never did that to our own citizens. The vast majority of blood on our hands comes from war, and I've specifically excluded war from the USSR's count.
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So you're justifying conquering lands by saying "it's to protect Moscow"?
But it different than Defending America?
We aren't conquering neighboring countries to put distance between our enemies and Washington.
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Yes, my parents use that thing too, I listen and try to learn a little, we have a Coat of Arms ya know, and possibly a relative who fought at Hastings, but were not sure.
Hey, we have a coat of arms, too. That's pretty cool.
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He lived in Greece. 
