New Year's Day is actually a holiday for some Christian paths.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_of_the_Circumcision_of_Christ
It wasn't us Pagans that had to stretch for a reason to make January 1 a holy day... No, it took the Christians to come up with a feast celebrating a circumcision.
Ummm...January 1 isn't a Christian holiday. It's a freak of the calendar. Even when I was in the Catholic church, I never heard this mentioned and it wasn't really a big deal. Admit it- you love teh weiner!
As a minister in my church, I'm required to engage in continual expansion of knowledge.... Doesn't your church require the same?
How ridiculous. That sounds like something Monty Python came up with. The contortions that Christians and their theologians get themselves into over the biological and sexual functions of the man on whom they base their religion is amusing. I wonder if in Christian dogma, did Jesus ever have sex, masturbate or feel any sexual desire at all? When he went to the toilet, did he produce holy faeces? Was his piss divine in any way?
We Baptists don't deal in Roman Catholic-style liturgy. But we are still waiting to hear about your secret homosexual obsessions.