{"id":2026,"date":"2006-12-16T22:10:45","date_gmt":"2006-12-16T20:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/?p=2026"},"modified":"2019-04-17T18:24:08","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T16:24:08","slug":"dating-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/?p=2026","title":{"rendered":"Dating Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DiscussingAdventismBook\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/wp-content\/plugins\/facebook-button-plugin\/images\/standard-facebook-ico.png\" alt=\"Fb-Button\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/?p=2026\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"400px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"fb-share-button  \" data-href=\"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/?p=2026\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"small\"><\/div><\/div><p>Last year, I&nbsp;<a title=\"Adventist Christmas\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/?p=1485\">wrote about Christmas<\/a>.&nbsp; This year too.<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;SDA2RC blog&nbsp;has an article on Christmas from the&nbsp;<a title=\"Why Dec. 25th? Church settled on \u2018Christ\u2019s birth day\u2019 centuries later\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amon-hen.com\/religion\/809\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Catholic News Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Christmas\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christmas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wikipedia<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a title=\"Christmas is Celebrated in Heaven and on Earth\" href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20071114051348\/http:\/\/www.truthorfables.com\/Christmas.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Truth or Fables<\/a>&nbsp;also have articles showing that Christmas is truly Christian, not a pagan celebration.<\/p>\n<p>Something worth reading for those who object to &#8220;<a title=\"O Come, O Come, Emmanuel - Enya\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DPHh3nMMu-I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">O Come, O Come Emmanuel<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a title=\"Hark the Herald Angel Sing - St.Paul&#039;s Cathedral, London\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LDPwNPAV6tA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hark the Herald Angels Sing<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DPHh3nMMu-I?rel=0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SDA2RC blog has an article on Christmas from the Catholic News Service. Wikipedia and Truth or Fables also have articles showing that Christmas is truly Christian, not a pagan celebration. Something worth reading for those who object to &#8220;O Come, O Come Emmanuel&#8221; and &#8220;Hark the Herald Angels Sing&#8221;<\/p><p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/?p=2026\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Dating Christmas","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[73,252,414,412,415,413,416],"class_list":["post-2026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adventism","category-catholic","tag-christian-worship","tag-christmas","tag-emmanuel","tag-enya","tag-hark-the-herald-angels-sing","tag-o-come","tag-pagan","item-wrap"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fpVQ-wG","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Midnight-Mass-2012.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}