What is the point of christmas?

Question

Now and days its all about money and gifts. Sure family is involved but still the children look forward to presents. Christmas produces young capitalists. or thats my opinion. tell my why you celebrate. if you do.

Answer 1

Oh, it doesn't produce young capitalists....

Christmas is a nice thing whether people celebrate it in a quiet way with modest gifts (or no gifts) or whether they go all out and over-decorate and over-shop and over-eat.... Its just a nice thing.
Its only "all about money and gifts" if that's how you see it or let it be, and I'd venture to say that more people see Christmas as more than that than don't.

Some people deeply believe its the celebration of the birth of someone who tried to bring peace to the world. Some people believe that person was a very, very miraculous person. Some people enjoy thinking about peace and family and joyful things in the darkest part of the Winter.

Sure, children look forward to presents. So what. Many of them believe in Santa for a short time, and they get to feel a little magic for a little while before they get too old for that kind of fantasy too soon.

Whether people get a deeply religious meaning from Christmas, whether they get to feel like things are a little magical for a little while, whether they just have fun buying things for their family (especially children), whether they just like a rest from the same old day-to-day sameness, or whether hearing Christmas music and talking imagining peace some day settling over the Earth; it doesn't matter if they shop big or shop only a little. These are things that some people think are worth having Christmas over.

Too, some people love the traditions in a world that is as modern and sometimes cold as the one in which we live. Some people love to bake the cookies and decorate them, create that special atmosphere in their home, light a fire in the fireplace, have friends over for a pre-Christmas brunch, take the kids out to buy a tree or bring out that snowman cookie jar who comes out only once a year for a month or so.....

Maybe there were times in history when there wasn't online shopping and new PC's and Ipods to be given as gifts. Maybe there was a time when "frivolous" things like scented candles and specially packaged colognes weren't around. Just because they weren't around it doesn't mean that now that they are they shouldn't be included as gifts, particularly when someone wants one and will light up to see that someone have given him/her one

Keeping the tradition of Christmas (while, yes, at that same time, allowing it to evolve in a way that makes it more match our present culture) is a way to tie together us as people and families and friends today with people from other times and places.

Finally, when families put together the most wonderful and loving and magic Christmases for their children when they're little the children get to have something very, very special in their childhood and to remember once they're older and life has become far less magical and far more serious. When families do the whole Christmas thing for their young-adult kids it gives those young people, who are at an age when adult life is new and sometimes difficult, a taste of the warmth of their childhood and roots and love that is around them. When families do the Christmas thing up they sometimes get to all be together just one more time before Nana isn't here any longer, and Nana gets to feel all that love all in one place at one time just once more before she goes.

What Christmas produces is people like me, who grow up and think and feel and talk as I do about Christmas and family and traditions - not young capitalists.

That's why some people celebrate it. Don't believe that the degree of shopping one does or doesn't do with whether or not Christmas means anything.

Answer 2

The point of Christmas is what Christmas is - the birth of Our Lord. It is a holy day, but unfortunately, given any chance at all, commercialism takes over. If you keep the spending end under control and remember the meaning of Christmas, it will be a happier merry Christmas.

Answer 3

Okay so I'm like 17 and Christmas is totally my fav. holiday of the year, it's the time we celebrate Jesus B-day of Course but that's just the big one,
but I love it because it's the one time of the year that people
greet each other in the store,
you can smile at each other and not get weird looks,
you can totally just reach out to other people,
I like to bake Christmas cookies for all our next door neighbors
and lots of other things,
forget the presents and remember what Christmas
is all about love, sharing, each other
if you lose sight of that, then I don't think there is even any reason to celebrate,
Mind you that it is still the day we celebrate
Jesus B-day..............

Answer 4

Curiously, I saw where the legend of St Nicholas also says that he had a helper. An evil spirit named Krampus, (Vienese
legend).
An anagram for SANTA, is SATAN.
Not to lose ones s++t! But I think it is safe to say that
commercialism really destroys the spirit of the Season.
I don't see people really enjoying Christmas Eve. It's more
like a feeling of relief that it's all over!

Answer 5

The intent of Christmas is to celebrate the birth of CHRIST. there are various beliefs on the subject this is the christan belief. I personally have celebrated Christmas 64 years in a row. My belief is the same know as it was when I became old enough to understand what I had been celebrating.

Answer 6

I celebrate the birth of Christ on Christmas day. Last Christmas was on a Sunday. I was in church before any gifts were exchanged at my house. The gifts are to represent not only the gifts given to Jesus by the kings at his birth, but it represents the gifts we give at birthdays. We can't give birthday presents directly to Jesus, so we give them to those we love - those who were created in the image of our Lord. I agree that most children spend more time worrying about what gifts they will receive than they do celebrating the birth of Christ. I think a lot of that has to do with their upbringing.

Answer 7

i celebrate Christmas because it is Jesus's birthday and it is a time for giving. my children has known since day one what Christmas is all about. this does not mean they did not believe in the man in the red suit but they were taught that mom and dad had to pay for the presents so they knew to only ask for things they knew we could afford. as soon as they were big enough to earn extra money they always helped a needy family to enjoy Christmas. to me that is what Christmas is about

Answer 8

It's a celebration of capitalism.
Personally I think Christmas sucks, all that fake jollity and so called spirit, ugh!
People celebrate because that is what is expected of them,I reckon I'm going to get some stick for posting this.
Hiel Hitler

Answer 9

i think the real x'mas tradition is LOST .
now many people give a list of things they want for xmas... so u know what r u getting and how much people spent on you.
X'mas was not ment to be a shopping list and expect people to give you something but to be happy u r alive and with your love ones. If someone gives u a present u know they really think in what would you like it can be a 1 dl gift and be really given with all their hearts and means more than a 1000 giftcard.
But people want more things so if that mades them happy, give them what they want... maybe next year you will see those gifts in the garage sale they are having cuz they item is not as cool or is outdated !!!!

Answer 10

I think your way of describing Christmas is the way it is done in Anglosaxon countries. Although there are American influences on the European continent, for most countries its the feast of Jesus birth. And I'm almost certain that in latin America it is even less a commercial feast