Bingowings said:
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My sentence about Christmas was pretty much the same as saying Halloween has almost nothing to do with Christianity despite the shifting of All Saint's Day and All Soul's Day to 'coincide' with it?
Christmas is an entirely Christian holiday. December 25, though dominated by such, is not just a Christian holiday. Note the difference? One is the name of a feast day which includes a title of Jesus. The other is a date on which several other festivals and important events occurred.
As for claims that I am mocking the beliefs others I didn't start this thread or any of the religious threads on this board so please don't accuse my of hijacking it. If one is invited to discuss a subject, the discussion is bound to include this sort of material as much as DE's Mormon thread is going to discuss the 'discovery' of the book of Mormon and what it has to say about native American peoples.
Otherwise what is it for?
I don't mind civil discussion. Go for it. But I don't want debates about whether or not you called someone such and such a name on this thread, or anything of the sort. If you respectfully presented the same information and arguments, I would be happy to have this kind of thing on this thread. But you are not being civil most of this time and are being obtuse with your repetitious and fallacious posts (to clarify, most of your posts regarding history et al. are not fallacious, but some of the claims you are making about others and others' statements fall in that category).