They do not celebrate Christmas or Easter as religious holidays.
\nAll 2x2s do not celebrate Christmas or Easter in the same manner.<\/p>\n
Some 2x2s claim that rather than celebrate only Dec. 25, they celebrate or revere Jesus’ birth all year long–since no one knows for certain exactly when Jesus was born.<\/p>\n
Some view Christmas as a pagan holiday and condemn Christmas trees as a Pagan custom, using:<\/p>\n
Jeremiah 10:2-4 – Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not”<\/em><\/p>\n Some 2x2s in various parts of the world celebrate Christmas as a secular holiday, giving gifts, a special meal, and with various degrees of decorations, usually not with a Christmas tree. Others consider Dec. 25 the same as any other day of the year. <\/p>\n If the annual winter Special Meeting date happens to fall on Dec. 25, the Workers hold the Special Meeting on that day, regardless that it disrupts many family traditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" They do not celebrate Christmas or Easter as religious holidays. All 2x2s do not celebrate Christmas or Easter in the same manner. Some 2x2s claim […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meetings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/truth.circlescosites.com\/dictionary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/truth.circlescosites.com\/dictionary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/truth.circlescosites.com\/dictionary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truth.circlescosites.com\/dictionary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truth.circlescosites.com\/dictionary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/truth.circlescosites.com\/dictionary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1177,"href":"https:\/\/truth.circlescosites.com\/dictionary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions\/1177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/truth.circlescosites.com\/dictionary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truth.circlescosites.com\/dictionary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truth.circlescosites.com\/dictionary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}