Morons.
Christmas is a whole lot more than a silly statement from a bunch of sales folks who are intent on separating us from our last dollars. Whether they say Happy Holidays or Merry Christmas or Happy Chanukkah or Joyous Kwanzaa means nothing. Nothing. Nothing!
The fact that Christmas is celebrated in December is because of the proximity of other religions' holidays, such has Chanukkah and certain early pagan rituals. Either to counter them or coincide with them, depending on whom you ask. It's not the date that matters. It's not what we say. It's why we're celebrating that matters.
(By the way, December 25 is not Jesus' actual birth date. Figure it out, folks.)
The phrase you say when greeting a customer as part of an over-commercialization process does not matter. What matters is what is in your heart and what you are actually celebrating. And that ain't trees and presents and buying and wrapping and eating and drinking and carrying on.
Get over it.
Meanwhile, those same conservatives and evangelicals have noticed that this year, Christmas falls on a Sunday. Bad News.
Some of the nation's most prominent megachurches have decided not to hold worship services on the Sunday that coincides with Christmas Day, a move that is generating controversy among evangelical Christians at a time when many conservative groups are battling to "put the Christ back in Christmas."How heartwarming. Celebrate Christmas morning by DVD light. Remember, folks, Christmas is about celebrating the birth of Christ. I fail to see how celebrating with a a heartwarming contemporary Christmas tale on DVD is exactly what worship is all about.
The Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Ill., has Christmas decorations, but not services.
Megachurch leaders say that the decision is in keeping with their innovative and "family friendly" approach and that they are compensating in other ways. Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Ill., always a pacesetter among megachurches, is handing out a DVD it produced for the occasion that features a heartwarming contemporary Christmas tale.
I know my church is holding a Christmas service the morning of December 25. I plan on being there.
Because THAT is the true meaning of Christmas. Celebrating the birth of our Lord and Savior in corporate worship with other believers.
Personally, I don't care what a clerk at Wal-Mart might say as he's ringing up another overextended credit card purchase.
Oh yeah, and Happy Holidays.
And so it goes.
3 comments:
kwanzaa wasn't created until 1966
The Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Mary commemorates, as the name suggests, the immaculate conception of Mary, not of Jesus. Even so, our best evidence suggests that Yeshua ben Yossuf was born sometime in the Fall.
We do not mind the use of Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas, Old, it is the exclusion of Merry Christmas from everything that is upsetting. Stores, schools, businesses, etc. allow symbols from Hannukah and from Kwanza, but they have forbidden the display of manger scenes and Christian Christmas symbols. That is what is wrong with secular culture: exclusion. And as an addition to the previous comment, the feast of which you spoke is called "The Incarnation" the feast of God's taking on human flesh; Christ's conception.
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