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" All holidays can be good times. "
John Clayton
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" Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ. "
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" Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a God and if he is a loving and merciful God, how do you explain the problems of suffering and death and all the tragedies that happen to people? "
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" Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another. "
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" Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are taking up their pens to paint a portrait of Jesus. "
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" I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consistent with God's existence as it is in opposition to God's existence. "
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" The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing so layers of guilt are imposed, and competition gets complicated as one Christmas program tries to outdo the other. "
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" I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish mistakes. "
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" The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence. "
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" There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. There was no nationalistic, political or ethnic superiority to be thankful for. "
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" In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness. "
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" The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God from a purely scientific perspective. "
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" Just as a puppy can be more of a challenge than a gift, so too can the holidays. "
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" There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday. "
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Positive
" Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday. "
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" Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it frustrated me to see students and parents who viewed faith and science as enemies. "
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" Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone. "
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" We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is real. "
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" It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that were a part of my early life, some who might be following the same paths might not make those same mistakes. "
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