Christmas Should Be Canceled
If you have not yet come to the conclusion I have–that greed and the commercialization of Christmas are destroying society–this unbelievably horrible news will convince you.
Filed under: Current Events, Rantings on November 28th, 2008
Christmas, the celebration of the birth of Christianity’s savior, should certainly not be ~cancelled~ because it has become a commercial holiday to most people.
That is sad, though…
I didn’t go out on Friday, having got most of my holiday shopping done online already.
I’m not sure if you’d agree, but it seems to me that what most Americans call Christmas today is not a celebration of the birth of Christ, but a celebration of consumer culture.
I look at the commercialization of Christmas as an insult to Christianity. I completely understand the origin of the tradition of gift giving, and though I’ve never given myrrh, I think it is nice to have a custom we can draw from the Bible, where Christians otherwise have relatively few, unlike, say, Jews. But this tradition has gone terribly awry. It is now all about spending money and procuring stuff. “Our dear Savior’s birth” is conspicuously absent from the modern holiday narrative. And, at this point, it’s just as well, since it offends me to see this frenzy of greed associated with such a holy occasion.
It’s only going to get worse, and there is no way to stop it. If it were possible, I’d go with the proposal to rename the whole ugly commercial part “X-Mas” and leave Christmas sacred: a time to celebrate the birth of Christ, and practice the noblest of His teachings: compassion and charity for the least fortunate.