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               Subject: [chofjclist] Where's the restoration?
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               Shalom All,
 

               From MORMON DOCTRINE by Bruce McConkie:

                       CHRISTMAS.
                       See APOSTASY,... EASTER,...
                       Modern day Christians celebrate December 25th
                       as an annual church festival and as the traditional
                       day of our Lord's mortal birth.... both Christmas itself
                       and the whole yuletide season often take on an air
                       of commercialism and worldliness... but the saints
                       nevertheless join in....

                       EASTER
                       See... CHRISTMAS...
                       Easter is the church festival celebrated by Christians
                       in commemoration of the resurrection of our Lord.
                       The lone scriptural reference to it (Acts 12:4) should
                       have been translated Passover from the Greek Pascha
                       found in the original.  The name Easter comes from the
                       Norse goddess Eastre whose festival was observed at
                       the vernal equinox.  ... Obviously, Easter... has come into
                       being as a compromise between pagan and apostate Christian
                       views,... Nonetheless the true saints gladly take it...

               OK I can see the Apostsy... but where is the "restoration"?

               Would someone please point out the "Restoration" group which does not
               "gladly take" and "join in" what is admittedly "a compromise between pagan
               and apostate Christian views"?
 

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