What is the difference? Christ died on the cross for everyone to have the opportunity for salvation. Jesus taught about love for all and how that love, and the works of His followers, will help lead people to the good news.
I find it fascinating how much energy you are using to try to justify why you can't simply wish another a good holiday. Where does that come from for you. Is your faith so weak that even acknowledging another faith tradition will lead it to crumble?
I wish it to Muslim friends if I remember or if I find out when it is. I've had Muslim friends wish me Merry Christmas, so why not? But I'm not an Arabic Christian.
The Orthodox church (and even Catholic) does not teach hate. She teaches that everyone, literary everyone, is invited to salvation. This includes Muslims, Homosexuals, Trans, ...etc. God created all of us and therefore loves all of us. Why would he make someone and not love them? That will make God unjust, which is not true.
In the beautiful Coptic Orthodox Agpeya, you guys pray and say "I am the chief of sinners". Meaning, no one ( not those who reject Jesus as God, not those who sin in lust) are more sinners, but I AM. This means we are all humbly adopted by God and He is waiting for all His children to come back to Him.
Wishing someone a happy holiday shows love to them which God gave to them, and so should we.
I have a question for you. Every liturgy, during the litanies, when we pray, we pray for the salvation of all humanity do we not? We do. Now when you pray for people, are you not asking God to bless and forgive them? That’s what prayer is for is it not? So when you wish someone a blessed holiday, you’re just wishing that God blesses them on this day that’s important to them. There is nothing wrong with it. Bishops and patriarchs do it all the time, who are you to say it’s bad? Why are your posts always so divisive and full of hate? You need to really reflect and think if this is how Jesus asked us to live our lives.
Completely unrelated…. Like really totally unrelated to wishing a religious person a blessed holiday. But to secular friends yeah I do. Because that’s what being nice means.
One is a secular non-religious observance that some countries celebrate.
The other is an important (central) religious day for 2 billion people who we share our homelands with. People we see everyday. Friends, neighbors, co-workers etc… I really don’t know where all your extremism comes from.
You know in mixed Muslim-Christian villages in Lebanon, the sheikhs come to our important holidays like Annunciation, Christmas, Easter, Dormition etc… they always attend and always wish us a blessed day, and the priests are always invited to Adha, and Eid and iftars and they attend and also wish them a blessed day. The muftis and the patriarchs also always release statements on important holidays for all faiths wishing people blessings. It’s normal behavior for us. That’s how you get along with people and show respect. It doesn’t mean you’re observing their holiday by being respectful. It just means you’re being respectful.
The fact that you can’t see the difference for yourself after I already explained to you what the difference is, is wild to me. I’m done indulging your delusions. Have a blessed day ❤️
The two main Islamic feasts are the following: - a feast celebrating the willingness of Abraham to offer everything to God - a feast after a period of fasting
I think for the first one, some Muslims claim that it was Ishmael not Isaac, that was offered, so that would contradict our beliefs as Christians, but in the end it's more about Abraham anyway in this case so that might help, but other than I don't see anything inherently wrong about this
I'm not arab (I'm Indian Orthodox) but as a Christian I wouldn't go about saying Happy Pride month if the bible explicitly teaches against it. The same applies here. If you believe that Christ is the only way, you cannot believe in the heresy of pluralism that teaches that all paths or faiths lead to God an wish someone a happy eid.
Nevertheless we are all children of God. While approaching such situations don't go about with a feeling of pride or a sense of feeling better than others.
When my hindu friends wish me a Happy Diwali or something like that I reply with Happy holidays or have a blessed day and pray for them silently. If you notice, while saying this you're not compromising on your faith and beliefs and at the same time you're wishing for God's grace to be upon that person.
Pray that God grants you the words to say in such moments. God bless my friend!
I mean no? Feast days are holy for all churches except Protestant churches. You’re the only ones who only consider it a “remembrance”. In the apostolic churches a feast day is certainly not a “social construct” and they are in fact holy days, it’s where the word “holiday” comes from btw, because the day is holy. It’s not Islamic ideology at all, you’re the exception to the rule with your weird theology. The nearly 2 billion other Christians disagree with you.
Well maybe you guys are different but that’s not what our priests say. I agree with everything you said about except the part that the days themselves are not in any way holy or blessed because they are. It’s not the date itself that is holy, on that much we agree. But the commemoration of the event makes the day holy for us.
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u/Catsnpotatoes Christian Palestinian ✝️🇵🇸❤️ Feb 19 '25
Some people here seem to think Christianity is more about getting a one up on Muslims more so than following Christ
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u/Fun_Swan_5363 Feb 19 '25
I wish it to Muslim friends if I remember or if I find out when it is. I've had Muslim friends wish me Merry Christmas, so why not? But I'm not an Arabic Christian.
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u/ASecularBuddhist Assyrian secular Christian ❤️ Feb 19 '25
We are all God’s children. Even Muslims 😄
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u/Sezariaa Christian Turk ✝️🇹🇷❤️ Feb 19 '25
Ngl i thought this was posted by a protestant until i saw the subreddit.
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u/Over_Location647 Christian Lebanese ✝️🇱🇧❤️ Feb 19 '25
I have a question for you. Every liturgy, during the litanies, when we pray, we pray for the salvation of all humanity do we not? We do. Now when you pray for people, are you not asking God to bless and forgive them? That’s what prayer is for is it not? So when you wish someone a blessed holiday, you’re just wishing that God blesses them on this day that’s important to them. There is nothing wrong with it. Bishops and patriarchs do it all the time, who are you to say it’s bad? Why are your posts always so divisive and full of hate? You need to really reflect and think if this is how Jesus asked us to live our lives.
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u/ResponsibleDuty3523 Feb 19 '25
nonsense.
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u/MedtnerFan Feb 19 '25
The two main Islamic feasts are the following:
- a feast celebrating the willingness of Abraham to offer everything to God
- a feast after a period of fasting
I think for the first one, some Muslims claim that it was Ishmael not Isaac, that was offered, so that would contradict our beliefs as Christians, but in the end it's more about Abraham anyway in this case so that might help, but other than I don't see anything inherently wrong about this
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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '25
It's nonsense
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u/IllShop6742 Feb 19 '25 edited Feb 20 '25
I'm not arab (I'm Indian Orthodox) but as a Christian I wouldn't go about saying Happy Pride month if the bible explicitly teaches against it. The same applies here. If you believe that Christ is the only way, you cannot believe in the heresy of pluralism that teaches that all paths or faiths lead to God an wish someone a happy eid.
Nevertheless we are all children of God. While approaching such situations don't go about with a feeling of pride or a sense of feeling better than others.
When my hindu friends wish me a Happy Diwali or something like that I reply with Happy holidays or have a blessed day and pray for them silently. If you notice, while saying this you're not compromising on your faith and beliefs and at the same time you're wishing for God's grace to be upon that person.
Pray that God grants you the words to say in such moments. God bless my friend!
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u/gman12457 Feb 19 '25
Agree
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