What's wrong with "Merry Christmas"?

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "susanmcgee48176" 
<Schlobin at ...> wrote:
>
> > Susan: 
> > > What do you think ISN'T pagan about Christmas? The birth of    
> > the son of god? The tree? The Yule log? 
> > 
> > Geoff:
> > Personally, I do not consider the coming of God in 
> > human form to earth as being pagan but as the fulfilment 
> > of promises made by God through the prophets.

Susan: 
> I respect everyone's religious beliefs. 
> That said, the idea of the son of God coming to earth, dying and 
then 
> being reborn pre-dates Christianity..

Geoff:
Summarising in a nutshell, to practising evangelical 
Christians, we are not discussing an "idea" but what 
we see as the revelation of God's love and wishes for 
his world. Obviously, not everyone here subscribes to 
that view.