Comments on: 11 Ways to Get Into the Holiday Spirit http://www.artofmanliness.com/2009/12/10/11-ways-to-get-into-the-holiday-spirit/ Men's Interests and Lifestyle Sun, 19 May 2013 03:54:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Allen http://www.artofmanliness.com/2009/12/10/11-ways-to-get-into-the-holiday-spirit/comment-page-1/#comment-70203 Allen Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:41:57 +0000 http://artofmanliness.com/?p=7912#comment-70203 JohnAtl: the irony is simple: Jesus died for your sins. He is your Savior too.

Merry Christmas.

]]> By: JohnAtl http://www.artofmanliness.com/2009/12/10/11-ways-to-get-into-the-holiday-spirit/comment-page-1/#comment-70025 JohnAtl Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:00:57 +0000 http://artofmanliness.com/?p=7912#comment-70025 Isn’t using a pagan festival to celebrate the birth of your savior a little ironic?
It’s a kind of like Christian rock.

]]> By: Elliot Ness http://www.artofmanliness.com/2009/12/10/11-ways-to-get-into-the-holiday-spirit/comment-page-1/#comment-70022 Elliot Ness Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:44:27 +0000 http://artofmanliness.com/?p=7912#comment-70022 Good post. But your Christmas movie list needs “It’s a wonderful life.”

]]> By: Allen http://www.artofmanliness.com/2009/12/10/11-ways-to-get-into-the-holiday-spirit/comment-page-1/#comment-70005 Allen Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:31:06 +0000 http://artofmanliness.com/?p=7912#comment-70005 An interesting discussion about the origins of Hanukkah is here:

http://www.jstor.org/pss/1196617

]]> By: Allen http://www.artofmanliness.com/2009/12/10/11-ways-to-get-into-the-holiday-spirit/comment-page-1/#comment-70004 Allen Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:25:00 +0000 http://artofmanliness.com/?p=7912#comment-70004 Christmas is the birth of Christ, period. It may be based on a pagan festival, but it is, and always will be, the birth of Christ.

So much for the tolerant left…

]]> By: JohnAtl http://www.artofmanliness.com/2009/12/10/11-ways-to-get-into-the-holiday-spirit/comment-page-1/#comment-69937 JohnAtl Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:31:29 +0000 http://artofmanliness.com/?p=7912#comment-69937 The defensive comments by Christians about Christmas are funny, given that Christmas is based on the pagan festival Saturnalia. When the pagans wouldn’t give up their festival, the church decided, “if you can’t beat them, join them,” and moved Jesus’ birthday to coincide with the pagan festivals.

http://www.simpletoremember.com/vitals/Christmas_TheRealStory.htm

]]> By: Allen http://www.artofmanliness.com/2009/12/10/11-ways-to-get-into-the-holiday-spirit/comment-page-1/#comment-69929 Allen Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:04:03 +0000 http://artofmanliness.com/?p=7912#comment-69929 Thanks for mentioning going to church. At least there are two of us who believe in going to church.

]]> By: Jack http://www.artofmanliness.com/2009/12/10/11-ways-to-get-into-the-holiday-spirit/comment-page-1/#comment-69831 Jack Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:06:05 +0000 http://artofmanliness.com/?p=7912#comment-69831 I hate this time of year, well maybe hate is too strong. But it irks me. Crass commercialism and fake sentimentality all around. Not to mention the hypocrisy of suggesting that we should give to charity now because of the time.

We should give all year round.

]]> By: Steve http://www.artofmanliness.com/2009/12/10/11-ways-to-get-into-the-holiday-spirit/comment-page-1/#comment-69820 Steve Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:03:13 +0000 http://artofmanliness.com/?p=7912#comment-69820 What about going to church? That seems to be absent from your list.

Funny, because it is CHRIST-mas we are talking about here, and the true Spirit of Christmas cannot be found in a soup kitchen, a movie, or on a classic Christmas album- yes, even Nat King Cole’s- but in sitting before the Child in the manger.

A little stillness, silence, reflection, and thanks (i.e., prayer) will be sure to touch your heart.

God bless you all. Merry Christmas!

]]> By: Allen http://www.artofmanliness.com/2009/12/10/11-ways-to-get-into-the-holiday-spirit/comment-page-1/#comment-69752 Allen Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:50:09 +0000 http://artofmanliness.com/?p=7912#comment-69752 Jayson:

I agree with you. Advent and Christmas are indeed two separate seasons. Perhaps I didn’t make myself clear enough. I hate how society has clouded up the boundaries between Advent and Christmas. There is SO much Christmas music during Advent, and so very little of it during Christmas. For the record: I don’t wish people Merry Christmas until sundown on Christmas Eve, and continue to wish people Merry Christmas until Epiphany. Our Christmas decorations stay up until Twelfth Night. I think what I was getting at was I refuse to be trampled on by the media and other liberal do-gooders who insist on us not “offending” people by wishing them a Merry Christmas, and instead wishing people a euphemism instead.

A blessed Advent,
Allen

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