Kirk Cameron: Christmas is Pure Christian

[Ultimate Paragon]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/12/kirk-cameron-christmas_n_6149592.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

Kirk Cameron wants people to know that many have Christmas all wrong. It's not a Christian holiday with pagan origins, but a Christian creation through and through.

In his new film, "Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas," the former "Growing Pains" star and popular evangelical figure told the Christian Post he's taking aim at all the people "who really want to put a big wet blanket on the celebration."

"It starts this time of year. You have people who want to pull down nativity scenes, you have lawsuits showing up in schools that can't have Christmas performances ... it has to be winter break or holiday break or sparkle season ... they want to take that out of Christmas so they don't offend people who hate Christmas. And then we have a new group who are telling us, convincingly, that Christmas is actually a celebration of paganism."

The Bible doesn't specify the date of Jesus' birth. Some scholars believe it was in the spring, while others have used the clues in the Bible to estimate an autumn birth. However, many modern Christmas traditions, including the Dec. 25 date and a celebration based around a tree, began as pagan celebrations of winter, such as Yule and Saturnalia.

Even the Christian Post notes on a separate page that Pope Gregory I once wrote to his missionary in England not to block traditional pagan festivals, instructing him instead to "adapt them to the rites of the Church, only changing the reason of them from a heathen to a Christian impulse."

I can't wait for him to break out more terrible photoshops.

[Nemo]

Ah yes, the annual War on Christmas. I'm surprised that the fundies are upset about calling it "winter break". We all know what "winter" means. If anything, David Silverman should be the one upset. And Kirk, people were celebrating the Solstice for long before there were Christians. You don't know what you are talking about.

[Dakota Bob]

I've been on the frontline on the War on Christmas. I've seen things you'll never believe, man!

[Ironchew]

If anything, David Silverman should be the one upset.

Why would Silverman be upset about calling it winter break?

[Murdin]

I can't wait for him to break out more terrible photoshops.

*Squeals with excitement*

This is why I love Christmas so much

[Cerim Treascair]

Hot damn! I'll get the spiced egg nog!

[Id82]

I have no problem with nativity scenes. As long as they are on a church property or someones private property, and not in the government owned public square.

[RavynousHunter]

I have no problem with nativity scenes. As long as they are on a church property or someones private property, and not in the government owned public square.

And that's how it ought to be, ideally.  Alas, certain dominionist factions won't be happy until people are forced to display Christian symbology of some sort or another on property both public and private.  Another example of a whiny minority making an entire, otherwise perfectly reasonable, group look bad.

[Ghoti]

SATURNALIA!

That is all.

[Meshakhad]

And his movie is bombing like a B-29

[ironbite]

He's asking his Facebook fans to do a run on Rotten Tomatoes because apparently RT controls what movies are shown on what screens.

Ironbite-I don't think he understands how these things work.