Former Growing Pains star Kirk Cameron may have officially lost it. Whether he had "it" to begin with is highly questionable. The former actor and atheist found religion (Jesus) when he was 17 and has been a fundamentalist ever since. His latest venture to spread the word of the Bible as he sees it is through his limited-release film Saving Christmas.
He recently made the following comments about the film to the Christian Post:
- "I'm making 'Saving Christmas' because I love Christmas, I love everything about it. I'm a sucker for all of it, and of course the nativity, and there's a lot of people who really want to put a big wet blanket on the celebration."
- "It starts this time of year. You have people who want to pull down nativity scenes, you have lawsuits showing up in schools that can't have Christmas performances. It has to be winter break or holiday break or sparkle season ... they want to take that out of Christmas so they don't offend people who hate Christmas. And then we have a new group who are telling us, convincingly, that Christmas is actually a celebration of paganism."
- "We don't know this stuff, we kinda drink the Kool-Aid and believe pagans when they tell us they have ownership of these things."
- "I want people to walk out of the theater, and first of all, have heard the Gospel, the Good News that God came to remove our sins, died, was buried and overcame the grave. I hope people will walk out of here and throw both arms around their Christmas tree, and both arms around their gifts and their children and the feasting and say, 'Christmas is about Christ. We want to dive headfirst in telling the whole world this story of God and his kingdom and how they have been invited to join it."
- He also believes Jesus was born on December 25th.
Yeah, speaking of drinking the Kool-Aid... Most scholars believe that Jesus was born in either the spring or the fall. The Bible never specifies on the matter, unless Cameron wrote an updated version himself.
Also, I hate to break it to Crazy Cameron, but Christmas was derived from a Pagan celebration. Even Pope Gregory I wrote this to his missionary in England:
"[Don't block traditional pagan festivals, but instead] adapt them to the rites of the Church, only changing the reason of them from a heathen to a Christian impulse."
Not only that, but uber-conservative Liberty Counsel founder Mat Staver told the Christian Post the following in 2011:
"A lot of things we do today have pagan and pre-Christian roots," and added, that it's "important to know your roots."
Outside of the "Kool-Aid" line, I think I found Mr. Cameron's final quote to be the most humorous. He tells people to throw both arms around their Christmas trees, yet the "Christmas tree" was first started by Roman pagans on the holiday of Saturnalia. Then Cameron says for people to throw both arms around their gifts, even though some view this as contradictory to Christians' belief that the goal of the holiday is to celebrate Jesus' birth - yes, even though most scholars don't believe he was born on that actual day.
According to Cameron, and many other like-minded individuals, it appears as if they feel the Bible explicitly states Jesus was born on December 25th, that he would actively speak out against the LGBT community, and would love the thought of his birthday celebration revolving around excessive spending in the name of capitalism, even though it doesn't say any of this. As usual, it appears as if Kirk Cameron simply interprets the Bible to coincide with his own beliefs. Who's drinking the Kool-Aid again?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/12/kirk-cameron-christmas_n_6149592.html
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/11/kirk-cameron-dont-drink-the-pagan-kool-aid-about-christmas-historians-dont-know-this-stuff/comments/#disqus
He recently made the following comments about the film to the Christian Post:
- "I'm making 'Saving Christmas' because I love Christmas, I love everything about it. I'm a sucker for all of it, and of course the nativity, and there's a lot of people who really want to put a big wet blanket on the celebration."
- "It starts this time of year. You have people who want to pull down nativity scenes, you have lawsuits showing up in schools that can't have Christmas performances. It has to be winter break or holiday break or sparkle season ... they want to take that out of Christmas so they don't offend people who hate Christmas. And then we have a new group who are telling us, convincingly, that Christmas is actually a celebration of paganism."
- "We don't know this stuff, we kinda drink the Kool-Aid and believe pagans when they tell us they have ownership of these things."
- "I want people to walk out of the theater, and first of all, have heard the Gospel, the Good News that God came to remove our sins, died, was buried and overcame the grave. I hope people will walk out of here and throw both arms around their Christmas tree, and both arms around their gifts and their children and the feasting and say, 'Christmas is about Christ. We want to dive headfirst in telling the whole world this story of God and his kingdom and how they have been invited to join it."
- He also believes Jesus was born on December 25th.
Yeah, speaking of drinking the Kool-Aid... Most scholars believe that Jesus was born in either the spring or the fall. The Bible never specifies on the matter, unless Cameron wrote an updated version himself.
Also, I hate to break it to Crazy Cameron, but Christmas was derived from a Pagan celebration. Even Pope Gregory I wrote this to his missionary in England:
"[Don't block traditional pagan festivals, but instead] adapt them to the rites of the Church, only changing the reason of them from a heathen to a Christian impulse."
Not only that, but uber-conservative Liberty Counsel founder Mat Staver told the Christian Post the following in 2011:
"A lot of things we do today have pagan and pre-Christian roots," and added, that it's "important to know your roots."
Outside of the "Kool-Aid" line, I think I found Mr. Cameron's final quote to be the most humorous. He tells people to throw both arms around their Christmas trees, yet the "Christmas tree" was first started by Roman pagans on the holiday of Saturnalia. Then Cameron says for people to throw both arms around their gifts, even though some view this as contradictory to Christians' belief that the goal of the holiday is to celebrate Jesus' birth - yes, even though most scholars don't believe he was born on that actual day.
According to Cameron, and many other like-minded individuals, it appears as if they feel the Bible explicitly states Jesus was born on December 25th, that he would actively speak out against the LGBT community, and would love the thought of his birthday celebration revolving around excessive spending in the name of capitalism, even though it doesn't say any of this. As usual, it appears as if Kirk Cameron simply interprets the Bible to coincide with his own beliefs. Who's drinking the Kool-Aid again?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/12/kirk-cameron-christmas_n_6149592.html
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/11/kirk-cameron-dont-drink-the-pagan-kool-aid-about-christmas-historians-dont-know-this-stuff/comments/#disqus
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