Christmas Commercialized
(Rant warning.)
The only problem with the world taking Christ out of Christmas comes in when you follow the “mas” rather than the Christ.
Target (and Wal Mart, and Coca Cola, and any other major corporation out there) switching from Merry Christmas to Happy Holidays! Is only bad if you switch as well.
Taking the toys and the candy and the six-months-of-debt, and the the “Black Friday” stampedes for $400 laptops, and the snowmen and the Santa Clause and the “Christmas” trees out of Christmas doesn’t spoil Christmas, it purifies it.
Corporate America can only hijack Christmas if you let it.
Read “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” sometime. Dr. Seuss knew what he was talking about.
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Matt,
I totally agree. Sarah and I decided not to have a christmas tree in our family. Or to do lights or to ever tell our kids about “Santa Claus”. Her mom told us we were ruining Christmas, but I’m convinced that there are more important things, like… family, love, generosity, and remembering the Child that was born for us.
Plus, I just don’t feel like “bearing false wittness” with my kids and tell them some freaky old man broke into our home and gave them the gifts they imagined. Better to have them know that Sarah and I gave them the most generous, appropriate gift we could, and have them learn about Christ instead.
I was out of the country on Black Friday… Thank God.
Good thoughts. As for me and my house too… We’ll keep Christ the point of this season.
“Read “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” sometime. Dr. Seuss knew what he was talking about.”
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Hey Tom most of the people reading this are probably in Iowa hence Walden books not the other bookstore of different name but same corperation.
Santa Clause etc. can be a good way to introduce the ideas of “giving” and “good will towards men”… I don’t think completely eliminating that part of x-mas is a good idea… tho in a few if my kids get too cought up in “what did you get me”… I mage change my tune…
All I have to say is, maybe you should view Christmas in a different light. Maybe the light that it only HELPS the economy and people’s standard of living with Christmas bonuses, extra overtime pay, and all the other fringe benefits involved with the season. If you want to take my commercialization out of your holiday, then why don’t you take your religion out of my government? In a government you expect to be Christian and for Christians, you hardly seem to care that commercialization exists within.
If it benefits and spreads your ideas it is only viewed as a good thing, until it twists your ideas to the point where they become a lesser meaning in the whole scheme. Then it becomes the commercialized beast you view as Christmas. Just because you complain about it doesn’t mean that people like me will listen and stop celebrating it because Christians are up in arms about it EVERY SINGLE YEAR. If you want to return to the time that was the Dark Ages in which nothing progressed, science regressed, and humanity was drunken in a religious stupor that kept them focused singularly on “The Lord” and off of society’s future, then so be it. But what you do on a private basis is your own thing. DON’T celebrate commercially, it’s YOUR choice.
Typical though, trying to shove your beliefs down other people’s throats as if this is some super-imposed structure that should dictate every waking moment in our lives.
Man, that was a fascinating comment. I wonder if he actually read my post, which was directed at Christians who complain EVERY SINGLE YEAR about the commercialization of Christmas.
Hard to believe Christmas is already around the corner. I am ready for some Thanksgiving turkey though.
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