Should Christians Celebrate Kwanzaa?

Kwanzaa is an African -American holiday celebrated from December 26th to January 1st, created in 1966 by Dr.

Maulana Karenga. The holiday draws from African rituals and black national ideology to create the seven principles of Kwanzaa, called the

Ngoza Saba. Among these principles are racial and national unity, self -determination, and faith in humanity.

Decorations feature colorful art and foods that represent African idealism. Ceremonies include showing gratitude to ancestors, drink offerings and feasts, and reading the

African Pledge and Principles of Blackness. Kwanzaa is a celebration of humanism, in which human fulfillment and values are the focus.

This mindset is of the flesh and hostile toward God. The seven principles teach that people can improve their lives by sheer will and self -determination.

For the holiday's founder, apparently that means abusing drugs and women. Humanistic traditions never unify.

Jeremiah 17 .5 says, Titus 3 .3

explains that before coming to Christ, we were enslaved to our passions and pleasures full of malice and envy, hated by others, and hating one another.

It is God alone who saves us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy.

Peter explains that in Christ, we're a chosen race, a holy nation, a people for his own possession.

Apart from Christ, we're not a people. In Christ, we are God's people. It is only Jesus Christ who gives unity, not a man -centered holiday.

must stand firm and hold to the traditions that we are taught by the Word of God when we understand the text.