~You don’t become a person on your birthday, nor change your basic identity on that day. Celebrating conception anniversaries or born-again anniversaries or even baptism day would make a lot more sense.
~Why should we buy presents for you on your birthday? Your mom did all the important work.
~Parties are expensive, and bad things often happen at them with adults.
~Ah, yes, the birthday. That special day where we celebrate those most well-known of Christian virtues: selfishness and self-importance.
~Do people eat healthy food at birthday parties?
~What day was Jesus born on, according to the Bible? Moses? Abraham? Daniel? Joseph? David?
~Birthdays themselves, as well as the particular rites of the birthday are clearly of pagan origin.
~Blowing out candles, what does that symbolize in a Christian worldview? Making wishes?
~Herod and Pharaoh are the only two explicitly mentioned birthdays, and both had real problems associated with them.
~According to Josephus, the Jews never were allowed to celebrate birthdays.
~It forces us to look backward in our focus over time rather than forward to our deliverance from this body of evil.
Bible references: Genesis 40:20-22, Job 1:4-5, Eccl 7:1, 8, Jeremiah 20:14, Matthew 14:1-12, Mark 6:14-29, John 10:10, Romans 14:4-6
Links:
Birthday by Wikipedia
Birthday paradox by Wikipedia
Are birthday celebrations Christian? by TheRCG.com
Should Christians celebrate birthdays? by FFPC.com
Should Christians celebrate birthdays? by Sprynet.com
Did early Christians celebrate birthdays? by Cogwriter.com
Can Christians celebrate birthdays? by LaVistaChurchofChrist.com
Jehovah's Witnesses and birthdays by Spotlightministries.org
Birthdays (Jehovah's witnesses site) by Xanga.com
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