Paganic...or ....otherwise.....that doesn't matter. What matters is , disturbing to hear from our brotherns that God dislike this type of celebrations .
Let me list my Christmas celebration......and examine if God dislike any activity.
The following is my typical Christmas celebration..
* I wake up in the early morning...( I don't think God dislike this )
* I take bath in the hot water ...( I don't think God dislike my bathing pattern )
* I wear new clothes ....( I don't think God dislike this too )
* I go to church for the early morning service ..( I don't think God dislike going to church )
* After the prayers , I go to a hotel with my friends to have my breakfast ( I doubt God dislike this )
* Until the lunch call , we , as a group of friends , relatives...do exchange greetings , sing some carols, hymns etc, .
We even went to others house to share our happiness. I help poor meantime.....( I believe God won't dislike this )
* I take noon meal (I admit it's a strong NV meal), and give sweets and food to neighbours , poors and others.( Actually God will like this )
* Then, we , our family , sit infront of the tv to watch Blessing TV and enjoy special christmas programmes. (May be , God have resevation about this,
but he approves tele-evangelism these days , so no problem here too.)
* In the evenig we do some playing and in the night we have talk with our elders and listern to their christmas stories. The day ends.( I hope this is no proplem
for God )
This is just the celebration activity , and don't think I didn't remeber GOD , It is always there.
I wonder how my above mentioned Christmas celebrations hurts God !
Paganic tradition , Heathen festivel etc ...are lame excuses .
Just because pagans do certain thing does not mean we should not do it ! ( எல்லாவற்றையும் சோதித்துப் பார்த்து, நலமானதைப் பிடித்துக்கொள்ளுங்கள். 1 தெசலோனிக்கேயர் 5:21)
What if a pagan adapt christian's tradition...should we have to abandon it ?
One final point.....I know that there is no proof, DEC 25 is the birth date of Jesus , but for any other date people will again ask for reference from the Bible, which I can't give. So I settled for Dec 25 as it is.