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?
Moongold
- 16th Dec 2014 05:41pm
Hate it. It's all about raking in money and wasting it. About time we got back to giving to support people in need, not those already having all they need and/or more. And helping the poor pets who are taken on board for a few days as presents and then cruelly, and unbelievably, dumped to try to survive. Spirit of Christmas? We probably can't even remember what it is. As for Christmas Day being Christ's birthday, it in fact is not in truth. The carol "while shepherds watched their flocks by night all seated on the ground" gives a clue! In the northern hemisphere the shepherds are out at night watching their flocks only in the warmer months, which are around May-August or so - 25th December the ground is frozen ice in the area Christ was born. It is believed the actual birth date of Jesus was therefore about May, June or so. The 25th Dec. is actually a date set by pagan religions - it honours the birth of a totally fictitional 'sun god', Tammuz, and was wrongly brought into the Christian church by the Catholic institution in the first few centuries after Christ. That's the only reason the world observes 25/12 each year, and it has nothing to do with Christ's birth! Interesting.
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