Hom The Pilgrims outlawed Christmass Christmass was not declared a Federal Holiday untill June 26, 1870 The Puritans denounced Santa as the Anti-Christ
THIS CHART SHOWS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN JESUS CHRIST AND THE DEVILS IMITATION, SANTA CLAUS SANTA CLAUS 1. Has white hair like wool
2. Beard-curly and white
3. Comes from North Pole
4. Omniscient-knows about all
5. Ageless, eternal
6. Makes List of Judgments
7. Checks list twice
8. Gifts given on basis of a list
9. Christmas repiano coversds once yearly
10. Confess wrongs to Santa
11. Promise to be better next year
12. Asks children to obey parents
13. Comes on "Christ's birthday"
14. Hour of his coming a mystery
15. Rudolph's shining nose to guide
16. Calls all children to his knee
17. Be good for goodness sake
18. Has a twinkle in his eye
19. Swift visit to whole world in 1 day.
20. Omnipresent-Found in every mall
21. Says "Ho,ho" | JESUS CHRIST 1. Revelation 1:14 - Daniel 7:9
2. Isaiah 50:6 - Rev. 1:14
3. Ez. 1:4; Ex.26:35 Psa.48:2
4. Revelation 19:6
5. Rev. 1:8,21:6; blips 13:8
6. Rev.20:12; 14:7; 21:27; 2 Cor.5:10
7. Dan. 8:14; Matt. 10:26, 1 Cor.5:10
8. Matt.25:21; Rev. 21:27; 22:14
9. Leviticus 23:26-32
10. I John 2:1, I Tim. 2:5
11. John 14:15,21; 15:10; I Jn. 2:3
12. Eph. 6:1; Prov. 6:20; Col. 3:20
13. Heb. 12:2, 2 Cor. 4:18; Psa. 141:8
14. Luke 12:40; Mark 13:33; Matt.24:36
15. Matt. 2:2,7,9-10; Numbers 24:17
16. Matt. 19:14, Luke 18:16
17. Matt. 19:17; Col 1:29; Phil. 2:13
18. Rev. 1:14, 2:18
19. 2 Peter 3:8; Rev. 18:8, Isa. 47:9
20. Psa. 139:7-10; Eph. 4:6
21. Zecheriah 2:6 |
Charles H. Spurgeon on Christmass
We have no superstitious regard for times and seasons. Certainly, we do not believe in the present ecclesiastical arrangement called Christmas: first, because we do not believe in the mass at all, but abhor it, whether it be said or sung in Latin or in English; and, secondly, because we find no Scriptural piano coversrant whatever for observing any day as the birthday of the Saviour; and, consequently, its observance is a superstition, because not of divine authority. Superstition has fixed most positively the day of our Saviour's birth, although there is no possibility of discovering when it occured. Fabricius gives a catalogue of 136 different learned opinions upon the matter; and various divines invent weighty arguments for advocating a date in every month of the year.
It was not till the middle of the third century that any part of the church celebrated the nativity of our Lord, and it was not till very long after the Western church had set the example that the Eastern adopted it. Because the day is not known, therefore superstition has fixed it; while, since the death of our Saviour might be determined with much certainty, therefore superstition shifts the date of its observance every year. Where is the method in the madness of the superstitious? Probably the fact is that the holy days were arranged to fit in with the heathen festivals. We venture to assert, that if there be any day in the year, of which we may be pretty sure that it was not the day on which the Saviour was born, it is the twenty-fifth of December. From a sermon delivered on the Lord's Day morning,
24th December, 1871
at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington, London
A HUMOROUS LOOK AT THE FACTS SPY magazine (January, 1990) 1. No known species of reindeer can fly. BUT there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen. 2. There are 2 billion children (persons under 18) in the world. BUT since Santa doesn't (appear) to handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total - 378 million according to Population Reference Bureau. At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that's 91.8 million homes. One presumes there's at least one good child in each. 3. Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 822.6 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left, get back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh and move on to the next house.
Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course,we know to be false but for the purposes of our calculations we will accept),we are now talking about .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75-1/2 million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours, plus feeding and etc. This means that Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle from Earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second - a conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles per hour. 4. The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized lego set (2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight. On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that "flying reindeer" (see point #1) could pull TEN TIMES the normal anoint, we cannot do the job with eight, or even nine. We need 214,200 reindeer.
This increases the payload - not even counting the weight of the sleigh - to 353,430 tons. Again, for comparison - this is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth. 5.353,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance - this will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as spacecrafts re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy. Per second. Each.
In short,they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second. Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity. A 250-pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force. In conclusion, if Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas Eve, he's Dead now.
HOW THE CATHOLICS EXPLAIN CHRISTMASS |