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From: kilroy@gboro.glassboro.edu (Dr Nancy's Sweetie)
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Subject: Special Days (was Sabbath, then married)
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Date: 27 May 91 03:15:40 GMT
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In Yet Another Sabbath Article, Dave Buxton proposes a situation where one's
anniversary is 15 June, and one's wife returns from certain death on 16 June.

Mr Buxton asks:
> Now for my question - would you two henceforth celebrate your
> anniversary on June 16?  That is the day on which she was returned to
> you alive again.

I would probably celebrate both events on a single day, using whichever day
was most convenient.  I am an iconoclast -- I regard no day as "better" or
"more important" than another.  (Romans 14 compares you and me quite well; I
think Paul covered the matter quite nicely.  Why do you debate what Paul
considered unimportant?)

You ask:
>What does it say about the Christian who refuses to celebrate the day
>of which Jesus is Lord and Creator?

...this makes no sense to me, because I believe that Jesus created all the
other days too; if Jesus is Lord of one's life, then he is Lord of every day.


I have three brothers; when we all lived with my parents, we were involved in
after-school activities, had jobs, went on dates, and did many other things.
When a birthday came up on a weekday, it was celebrated on the nearest Sunday
(either before or after the actual birthday).  None of us thought twice about
it; Sunday was when everybody was together, and so that was most convenient.

> What does it say about a husbands love if he refuses to celebrate his
>wife's birthdays and their anniversaries?

What does it say about a mother who celebrates her own children's birthdays on
whichever day is most convenient?  Are you going to tell me that my mother
never really loved me?

Last year, Nancy and I went to visit her mother on the weekend after her
mother's birthday.  We took a hand-made present, and made a cake (it was
chocolate with little candy dinosaurs all over it).  BUT, we celebrated the
birthday three days after the "right day".  Now, are you going to post
articles that insinuate Nancy doesn't really love her mother?


Mr Buxton, I am insulted by your constant insinuations that those who disagree
with you about Sabbath observance don't really love God.  You draw a parallel
with loved one's birthdays -- would you make insulting statements about people
who celebrate those birthdays when it is convenient?  It is *your* analogy;
will you accept its implications?

You keep saying that you aren't judging people -- but I always come away from
your articles feeling judged.


kilroy@gboro.glassboro.edu      Darren F. Provine      ...njin!gboro!kilroy
"Who are you to judge someone else's servant?" -- Paul