Should Christians Celebrate Kwanzaa?

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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Jeremiah 17 .5 says, Titus 3 .3

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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.

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

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

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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.

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