Storeowners...
business people...
Shoppers...
I know I know..the birth of Christ deserves celebration....but for monetary gain?
2006-12-01 02:15:30 · 12 answers · asked by kabooodelzzz 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
As a Christian, I hate Christmas because of what it has become. I don't need a holiday to remind me the birth of our Savior. I'm reminded of His birth 365 days a year when I pray to Him and seek solitude in His presence every morning.
I don't get into the whole shopping madness thing. I simply buy most of the gifts online and avoid the madness that takes place in retail stores across the country. I also turn the channel on TV whenever a Christmas commercial comes on. It sickens me to see how capitalism has taken over what was once a holy holiday.
2006-12-01 02:21:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Aha what a Question ?
Tell me dear friend, do you know that religion ( all religions included) is the largest industry involving billions of dollars and providing employment to millions ?
You banish "god" today and there will a unprecedented global unemployment crises and starvation deaths.
Take any religious festival ( any religion) to celebrate you do require the basic essential materials, your need provides an opportunity to someone to be a producer, trader, wholesaler, distributor, retailer, transporter, and may be even officiate as a priest, besides the fact that religion needs a publisher, movable and immovable property, an organization and what not..?
These people can not provide you of your needs or services (even if they belong to the same religion) if they did not have a need for earning their livelihood .
Today with TV airing religious shows, ( special shows on festivals ) how does one sustain the channel ? the cost of airing the program ? which includes payments to the people involved in the whole program, including the Star / Host of the program. Remember Nothing comes for free in this world, the preacher can not preach on an empty stomach.
2006-12-01 11:02:15 · answer #2 · answered by madhatter 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not anymore I don't. When I learned that Dec 25 is actually the date of a pagan Roman holiday called Saturnalia, dedicated to the return of the god Saturn in the spring, and that Jesus was probably born sometime in the fall, I began to pay attention. When I learned that Jews of Jesus' day didn't celebrate birthdays at all, and that the only day in the Bible that we are ASKED to remember is the date of his DEATH, then that did it for me. I think it would be highly disrespectful of me to celebrate Jesus' birthday when he neither did himself nor asked ME to do it! I no longer celebrate any holidays, and the more I don't, the more I can see them for what they are.. commercialism and greed. Every time we buy a Christmas tree, or wrapping paper; an Easter basket or dress; Halloween candy or a costume; a Mothers Day card or robe... we play right into the hands of big business.
2006-12-01 11:33:09 · answer #3 · answered by themom 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think most people celebrate christmas now as that time of the year when Santa Claus gives presents to children and adults get the chance to eat their weight in poulty.
I think that's where most of the commerce in christmas comes from. Practicing christians are celebrating something different from non religious folk. That's how I see it anyway.
2006-12-01 10:23:22 · answer #4 · answered by modo_komodo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its just a day, a national holiday. It is not the day Christ was actually born, so it does not, to me, demean that fact. It was a date chosen to mark it, to celebrate it, but not the real date.
So yea, I'm guilty, And it bothers me not one iota.
2006-12-01 10:23:07 · answer #5 · answered by sweetie_baby 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no part of Christmas has a thing to do with Jesus...unless yer catholic, then i might....it was a pope that picked the day...there's no evidence even leading to a time of Jesus birth.
why would a christian follow the orders of a pope, and use pagan rituals?
if they are real none of them....The old test says not to have a tree....
if they do....just more christian hypocrisy
2006-12-01 10:23:15 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bravo...
Jesus was also an anti-traditionalist... makes Christmas kind of redundant.
2006-12-01 10:24:23 · answer #7 · answered by gatewlkr 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Please! I'm so sick of hearing about this, Christmas is a time of giving and helping others (just like HELLO Jesus) Christmas isn't just about the death of Christ antmore there is so much more to it!
2006-12-01 10:18:52 · answer #8 · answered by jillybean 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
For chirst yeah, But for santa and the rest not really.
2006-12-01 10:29:31 · answer #9 · answered by jack 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All of them. We are His marketing department.
2006-12-01 10:17:46 · answer #10 · answered by Kodoku Josei 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋