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blogs.ancientfaith.com
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| | | | | A friend of mine likes to say that no nation or people is truly a Christian nation or people until it has a nationally-venerated icon or shrine of the Theotokos. This is not a doctrine of the Church, of course, but it is a cultural observation that rings true in a certain way. There is something about how a Christian society works that almost inevitably results in having a veneration for the Lord's mother at the center. | |
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3rsofretirement.com
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| | | | | I'll Be Home For Christmas Eve Two days before Christmas, the year I turned six, my family moved to the tundra. At least that's what mom called the wind-swept plains of northwest Minnesota until the day she died. I don't remember much about that Christmas except we didn't have a tree and, from that year... | |
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www.roger-pearse.com
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| | | | | Christmas first appears in the historical record in 336, in Rome. But there is no trace of anybody having a "Christmas tree" until 1521, when a record of trees being cut for this purpo... | |
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historyforatheists.com
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| | | Tom Holland's provocative book argues that much of what we take for granted as obvious human rights and values are actually intrinsically Christian ideas. | ||