tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post8757950633536693700..comments2024-03-27T15:47:46.091-05:00Comments on Pastoral Meanderings: American Holidays. . .Pastor Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10653554256101480140noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-22159286053904250822021-09-08T09:47:56.309-05:002021-09-08T09:47:56.309-05:00"Why we cannot even celebrate Columbus Day an...<i>"Why we cannot even celebrate Columbus Day anymore without offending someone!"</i><br /><br />Like..... well..... the Missouri Synod... back in 1914. <br /><br />Excerpted from <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=K5osAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA93" rel="nofollow"><i>The Lutheran Witness</i>, Vol. 33, 1914, pp. 93-4</a><b>:</b> <br /><br /><b>Official Text of Resolutions</b><br />Adopted by the German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, May 16, 1914, at Chicago, Ill. <br /><br />WHEREAS the Roman Catholic hierarchy strives to influence and control the government of our country in its own interests, in violation of the fundamental principle of the Constitution regarding the separation of Church and State, thus endangering religious and political liberty; <br /><br />WHEREAS this religio-political power has succeeded in inducing our presidents to recognize and honor in an official capacity the Roman mass (for instance, on Thanksgiving Day); <br /><br />WHEREAS recently, through Roman intrigues, the Congress of the United States has been petitioned to make Columbus (Discovery) Day, October 12, a national legal holiday; and since this request is the more impudent as until now not one historically important day, not even Independence Day, July 4, has been made a national legal holiday; and <br /><br />WHEREAS every patriotic citizen feels deeply hurt by such occurrences; <br /><br /><i>Be it therefore resolved,- </i><br /><br />1) That Synod present a protest to the President of the United States against his official participation in the Roman mass; <br /><br />2. That Synod send a protest to the Congress of the United States against making the so-called Columbus Day a national legal holiday;<br /><br />3) That the President of our Synod be authorized and instructed to enter a protest in our name with the President of the United States whenever similar endeavors to mix Church and State come to light.<br />R[ichard Daniel] Biedermann [Secretary, LCMS, 1905-1920]. <br /><br />Actually, in June 28, 1870, Congress created four federal holidays: New Year's Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day. Other federal holidays have been added over the years since then, including Columbus Day in 1937.Carl Vehsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00348831096001668813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-73122507621759588792018-01-17T19:14:49.817-06:002018-01-17T19:14:49.817-06:00Hey,I know! Let’s have a holiday where we celebra...Hey,I know! Let’s have a holiday where we celebrate ghoulishness, death, and decay, and every phobia that can be imagined. What a concept! I like it! This makes perfect sense maybe to Stephen King.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-28940274986025138202018-01-17T19:00:29.733-06:002018-01-17T19:00:29.733-06:00A Festivus for the rest of us!A Festivus for the rest of us!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-40075337816633613202018-01-17T08:06:58.615-06:002018-01-17T08:06:58.615-06:00Pastor, Halloween is a "holiday" we shou...Pastor, Halloween is a "holiday" we should skip as Christians, just as we should avoid becoming too much like the world in our pursuits and interests. Being in the world but not of the world is Christ's warning to us, lest our hearts stray from the narrow path. I have found many Christians today do not take seriously what being a believer entails. It means not isolation from the world, but separation from those things, those ungodly practices and values which the world embraces, We should not be disengaged from the world, but as we are full time ambassadors for Christ, we need to cultivate wisdom in our approach to it.John Joseph Flanaganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06596324816480709495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-48025121684826166572018-01-17T07:21:35.041-06:002018-01-17T07:21:35.041-06:00I might beg to differ on the religious significanc...I might beg to differ on the religious significance of Halloween. Certainly there are multiple thousands who see the day only as a fun time for eating too much sugar, and dressing in costumes from funny to scary. There are, however, many of the new pagans for whom this day becomes one in a series of non-Church (or anti-Church) days of observance/celebration.<br /><br />Also, economically, if Amazon and other retailers could work to make Halloween the day we exchange gifts by running huge sales, it might overthrow Christmas (at least the ‘secular’ version of it).Janis Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02947508427040251166noreply@blogger.com