How do you feel about Christmas? Love it? Hate it?
Posted by: Rainbow
17th Nov 2011 04:22pm
Do you wish Christmas would come and go quickly or do you look forward to it with great enthusiasm? Do you believe Christmas has lost its meaning given all the materialistic connotations associated with it or does it still have a special place in your heart?
KennethS
- 23rd Nov 2011 08:55am
Christmas is meant to be a Christian festival, to celebrate the birth of Christ, whom Christians believe is the son of god and their saviour ( Christ's Mass). A time for family and friends to gather and celebrate the rebirth of their faith and celebrate the bounteous gifts of living in a christian society.
In our modern secular commercialised world it is anything but this, it is a commercial festival, where greed , over indulgence, glutony and intoxication are the order of the day on the modern commercial myth of a jolly fat man dragged across the sky in a sleigh drawn by reindeer supposedly delivers presents to children all over the world in a single night . Not too much of the Christian story in that is there.
Christmas is a time of loneliness and depression for all too many people who do not participate in the good life offered by consumerism, and the over indulgence of our pagan celebration of what is meant to be a Christian festival of love and inclusion. Not surprisingly, it is a peak period for suicide, this is not a killjoy comment, it is a simple fact, and a stark statement of how our society has lost it's way. Perhaps we should try and get back to the traditional meaning of Christmas, and show goodwill to all men, rather than immerse ourselves in hedonistic commercialism of what should be a simple time of love and fellowship between family and friends.
Long after Christmas is passed, and we have commenced the long run up to Easter, commencing some time in Late January when Hot cross Buns and chocolate goodies make their appearance in the supermakets for the other great corruption of a Christian Festival, many will be reflecting on the financial hangover of Christmas, the soaring credit card bills, that will take months to clear, and that is assuming that the economy holds up and one's job doesn't disappear in the coming meltdown of global financial markets - but lets not think of that Juliar Gillard and Wayne Swan will shield us from those nasties, or will they?
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