{"id":402,"date":"2017-08-11T10:24:36","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T15:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gv2.vine-branches.info\/?p=402"},"modified":"2017-08-11T10:26:55","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T15:26:55","slug":"protect-our-christian-culture-and-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vine-branches.ca\/GrapeVine2\/self-aware\/self-aware-faith\/protect-our-christian-culture-and-values\/","title":{"rendered":"Protect our Christian Culture and Values"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h1>Background:<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>While our society has become more materialistic, our politicians have also shown increasing opposition to the traditional religious values by being \u201cpolitically correct\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>If we don\u2019t start to protect our Christian culture, no one will protect our core values. And before long, all our Christian values may no longer exist.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cMarriage is a union between a man and a woman\u201d is one of the examples of the traditional values being challenged today in Canada. And recently, increasing number of organizations and companies choose to use \u201cHoliday Season\u201d instead of \u201cChristmas\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>I doubt people would rather use \u201cHoliday in May\u201d stead of \u201cVictoria Day\u201d or \u201cGeneral Holiday\u201d instead of \u201cCanada Day\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>We respect other people\u2019s choice but we can\u2019t be ignorant of the reason why those special days are remembered and celebrated in their special ways.<\/li>\n<li>So, I hope other people will respect the rationale in our special traditional celebration.<\/li>\n<li>Put Christ back in Christmas! Take appropriate action to rectify this semantic change.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Actions:<\/h1>\n<ol>\n<li>Understand and embrace the central spiritual truth and celebrate the real spirit of Christmas!<\/li>\n<li>Cut down unnecessary shopping to counter the secular views. If you have to shop, do it according to your \u201cNEED\u201d; don\u2019t do it according to your \u201cwant\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>When you need to buy gifts, BOYCOTT those stores which have \u201cHappy Holiday Season\u201d in store display or in their advertisement.<\/li>\n<li>When you send Christmas cards, choose those with a religious theme.<\/li>\n<li>Continue to say or write \u201cMerry Christmas\u201d to people as in the past.<\/li>\n<li>Reduce excessive spending on shopping or parties. Donate the money to organizations with true Christian values or for the needed people.<\/li>\n<li>If you agree with this idea, please share this suggestion with your friends.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div class=\"itanywhere-activator\" style=\"left: 5px; top: 0px; display: none;\" title=\"Google Translator Anywhere\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I doubt people would rather use \u201cHoliday in May\u201d stead of \u201cVictoria Day\u201d or \u201cGeneral Holiday\u201d instead of \u201cCanada Day\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-self-aware-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vine-branches.ca\/GrapeVine2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vine-branches.ca\/GrapeVine2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vine-branches.ca\/GrapeVine2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vine-branches.ca\/GrapeVine2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vine-branches.ca\/GrapeVine2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vine-branches.ca\/GrapeVine2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405,"href":"https:\/\/vine-branches.ca\/GrapeVine2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vine-branches.ca\/GrapeVine2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vine-branches.ca\/GrapeVine2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vine-branches.ca\/GrapeVine2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}