Dear Sir,
I do understand the conscience issue over the celebration of festivals (en November 2014), particularly of Easter and Christmas which do have roots that are decidedly unhelpful, to say the least, and practices which can detract from the gospel more than promote it.
However, celebrating Christmas in certain nations is an act of bravery and witness that we mostly ‘unpersecuted’ Christians in the UK – as yet – can only experience through papers such as en. A Muslim leader back in 2011 was recorded stating that saying ‘Happy Christmas’ was worse than fornication or killing someone. The number of attacks on churches in the run-up to ‘Christmas’ is generally quite high compared to other points in the year.
