What you celebrate at Christmas is a birthday, brought forward or celebrated later. Jesus Birthday celebration was pragmatically placed on the pagan winter solstice festival, exemplary for the Christian adoption of old customs. Similarly connects with Santa New Year’s Eve a special act of creative appropriation of pagan possessions. This Pope found one historical significance of its own kind posthumously as a recipient of the bective Constantinian Donation, a forged document, according to the Emperor Constantine of the Church the territory of bequeathed to today’s Vatican State.
But with all possible alienation at the way his representatives deal with the truth for the benefit of the Church: The Christmas birthday child is the same person who hangs on the cross on Good Friday. And in his story he puts our finger in a wound that is also ours. A birthday symbolizes your own coming into the world. In this celebration one wants to be recognized for it become who you are. But the more you are who you are, the more you can do that Shaping relationships in his own way.
At the wayside cross
And all the more some may fear no longer in to the extent to be able to be yourself as you wish. If you have your belief pronounces it counts as a declaration of war, if you give your own judgment or a Decision is made, as presumption or betrayal. They may have said: Be sincere, do the right thing, make up your mind! But would you consider fulfilling this task to be an insult to those that they were allowed to provide. As soon as one comes into the world, one is already hanging on the cross. The crucifixion does not take its name from the wooden scaffolding on which the condemned beis xed to him to surrender to ridicule and the gradual failure of his body, but from the Crossroads where this torture device is set up. That is where the executed soul is supposed to be get lost.
According to Christian portrayals, Jesus evades this logic of damnation and drives perpendicular to the wayside cross towards hell, and after his victory up again to a new one To create order. He shows how to get out of a dilemmaflie by getting a new one Chooses a frame of reference, thereby making the problem the means of a solution to the problem exceeds. Today’s and age-old dilemma is: consideration through distance or freedom of Interaction.
Out of consideration, the necessary may not be done and said, that I didn’t hear what was said, didn’t smile back, refrain from patting the back. On the the other side likes what appears to be a friendly affection for the other To be an imposition and a threat. The new technology offers opportunities for another To stay at a distance. Relevant companies, all too certain of their good intentions, take advantage of the Situation and influenflneed the formation of political convictions.
Proven lifestyle
Other groups protest, their orientation towards the common good all too sure for the retention of their tried and tested Lifestyle. Everyone wants you to take their position. Nothing seems right to be able to do. Nailed to the cross, one seems astray. Or you can thwart the dilemma and take the ambiguity of the situation as an opportunity to find a good one Distance to befor the respective rhetoric, e.g. political apparatus medicine or a self-centered angry bourgeoisie. One recognizes the chance to come of age.
For the birthday of the People in a mind in which he forms his mind by listening, and not just hears, but thinks its part. And the compromise through communication and experience seeks, on a winding, sometimes dangerous path, but not alone.
At Christmas everyone has Birthday. Until New Year’s Eve we have time to care for the world of pious lies Arming half-truths and paranoid fictions.
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