Why are people so blinded to the fact that Christmas was created just for the sake of businesses making more money. Most merchants count on Christmas time to get them out of the red. Am I the only one who sees the true meaning of Christmas, which is to get as many people as possible to spend as much money as they can. Christmas is not a Biblical holiday. Jesus asked his followers to remember his death, not his birthday.
2006-11-18 00:44:15 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
Christmas (tho called by other names) is a pagan holiday that the Church adopted in order to make people feel more inclined to follow Christianity. Alot of Christianity was adopted from pagan rituals---a matter of comfort level for the people.
True, today, the merchants are the biggest promoters of Christmas. And, they do a good job if it.
2006-11-18 00:51:57 · answer #1 · answered by Shossi 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Jesus Christ was born Our Savior, we celebrate his birth as well as remembering that He died for our sins.
We love the holidays to get together and share beautiful memories and good food and company and it is a time of giving, weather it is your time, something for the poor, or whatever it is that makes you feel good, but mostly it is a time for sharing love and peace.
Christmas has been celebrated since the beginning of our time and over the years, most people have forgotten its true meaning because of merchants pushing for the almighty dollar and it is our faults that play a big part in this. You don't have to spend a lot of money on any holidays, it is up to the individual, and always has been.
Anyhow, have a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
2006-11-18 10:03:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
My family celebrates Christmas while celebrating Christ simultaneously. The reason we celebrate Christ is because Christ was born on that day and Christ was the most special person from then on. Christmas was not created just for the sake of businesses making more money. People and businesses took advantage of Christmas so that they could make more money because they knew that a lot of people would be buying their products to give to their family. I personally think it is better to celebrate Christmas than to not celebrate Christmas.
2006-11-18 09:19:29 · answer #3 · answered by inquisitive chic 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Actually, i think its the other way round. There is no written record of Christ asking any1 to celebrate his birth as far as i know but then there is nowhere it the world that it says to celebrate ur wives birthday or daughter's or friends or familys. But, when u love some1, what u do is u celebrate the day they were born and if that person has passed, u remember them at their deaths. the same holds for Christ.
Yes its true loads of people celebrrate Xmas without actually knowing what they are celebrating (pity!) & marketers have taken it to an all new high by creating that 'holiday' magic in order to sell all sorts of products with each tryin to top each other but, would u rather Christ's birth not celebrated than the Merchants not market their products?
Even the North star Celebrated & the Angels bowed to the day of HIS birth. I for one would rather celebrate to remember Christ than not!
2006-11-18 09:02:06 · answer #4 · answered by Mama's Girl 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, your right on that. It is a big money maker for businesses. Its fun though for my children and myself. We enjoy the whole holiday season here. I love the traditional Christmas. Decorating the tree and shopping and everything that goes with it. Oh ya and the food. Its so very good. Having friends and family visit and all the alcohol that gets consumed. Then on Christmas morning, you should see the faces of my children when they find their gifts under the tree. Its truly priceless.
Im sure the best way to celebrate Christ is to help the poor, the week and disabled and those who are in prison...
Blessed are those who are generous, because they feed the poor. If you help the poor, you are lending to the LORD -- and He will repay you! Whoever gives to the poor will lack nothing.
Proverbs 22:9, 19:17, 28:27a
2006-11-18 09:12:02 · answer #5 · answered by ally_oop_64 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because they have done so for about 1200 years?
It is reasonably clear that Christmas represented an Christianising of pre-existent Pagan festivals
(reducing one obstacle to conversion, at the least) and many pieces of pre-Christian rituals and images survive in the varied traditions.
So Christmas was not created "just for the sake of businesses" though they have now, I agree, thoroughly got their paws on it.
Getting money out of people is therefore ONE meaning and message of Christmas. The old one of the survival of the ever-green with its promise of spring can still be found. (The Holly and the Ivy). And in between the two is the added story of the Christ-child.
(Somewhere between the Christian message and the commercial one there is an extra myth some are attached to: that of the warmth of an ideal family event.)
Which one (or more) people are celebrating or caught up in may not be clear. Even to themselves, unless they have thought it through thoroughly.
2006-11-18 09:09:48 · answer #6 · answered by Pedestal 42 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you really cared about what would Jesus do you would throw away the holidays that man has created and go back to observing the feasts & holy days that God commanded.
Christmas is the pagan feast of Saturnalia, Easter is a pagan fertility feast. (Why is the holiest day in Christianity names after a pagan fertility goddess, filled with fertility symbols and has the date set by astrology {first Sunday, following the first full moon, following the spring equinox}) If you want to really celebrate the Messiah rising from the dead check your calendar for Passover (The last supper was the Passover meal), add 3 days...there you have it. Not Friday night to Sunday morning...that isn't 3 days.
As for His "birthday", in the Jewish culture birth is a time of promise...death is a remeberance of what has been fullfilled. Remember what the Messiah has fullfilled!
Shabbat Shalom, y'all
OK...off my soapbox. Sorry pet peeve of mine.
2006-11-18 08:58:45 · answer #7 · answered by Shalvia 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All I know is that we celebrate Christmas because we are so happy that Jesus was born in order to die so that we can be forgiven for our sins. In our family, we never open gifts until we read the story of Jesus' birth in the Bible.
2006-11-18 08:56:31 · answer #8 · answered by Ms. G. 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
you right, Christ didn't tell what day to celebrate his birth..however that is the day that was chosen by man to celebrate his birth..
the true meaning of Christmas to me..is that in the story of Christmas if you can recall, 3 kings came and visit Christ when he was born and brought gifts..that is where the gift giving comes in at..
my opinion, people has took it turned it the way that they wanted it turn..so that is why you have all the buy present etc..and just going nuts with the buying, gft giving, etc..The real meaning of Christmas to me is to celebrate the birth of Christ, and that he was born on this earth to save us all from sin..and also he died on the cross to save us from sin..Yes he did say to rememeber that he died on the cross for our sins... Nothing wrong with remembering the birth of Christ either..
hope this helps answers your question
2006-11-18 14:08:36 · answer #9 · answered by lil bit 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I see your point,but many yrs ago there was a time when Christmas was not about gifts.Jesus is looked at as someone alot of religious people want to be.I rather see people worship Jesus than a soon to be martyr like Saddam Hussein.
2006-11-18 09:52:37 · answer #10 · answered by Celebrity girl 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋