Santa Claus, buying gifts, Christmas trees, etc. What about these things make us think directly about Christ? It is all rubbish if you ask me.
2007-12-11 14:43:07 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It didn't become secular, it was originally secular and they pasted Christian names on it all. You can't take a pile of dung and dress it up and make it smell like anything else.
' * Note to winter solstice celebrators. I am not saying it is a pile of dung.... what I am saying is the Roman Catholic Church should never have stolen your celebration in the first place. The analogy is not meant to offend only to elaborate, and make a point that one thing can not BECOME another. It's a turn of phrase that my dad used to use.
2007-12-11 14:52:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well, as people in the USA say, "nothing personal. Only business"
Lenin said: "The capitalists will sell to us the ropes that we will use to hang them"
People in the USA must make money, THEY MUST !
They are genetically programed that way
In Christmas in the USA, nobody thinks about the baby Jesus. Many people don't even know exactly the meaning of Christmas. All they think of is Santa Claus, which has NOTHING to do with Christmas.
The figure of that fat guy dressed in red comes from the pagan Scandinavian god Odin, who rode a sledge pulled by two goats
2007-12-11 15:03:09 · answer #2 · answered by Der Schreckliche 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Probably because the commemoration of the birth of Jesus was manufactured in around the year 350 or so by the head of the church. It was, until that time, a pagan holiday. Perhaps it has moved to being a commercial holiday because it isn't genuinely about Jesus, and never has been genuinely about Jesus.
That and the fact the people love money more than anything else I can think of.
2007-12-11 14:57:12 · answer #3 · answered by Night Owl 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think a better question is how did the winter festivals and celebrations of many cultures get turned into the birthday of Christ?
Trees, exchanging gifts, a man bearing gifts, celebrations around the 25th December - these are all older than Christianity.
2007-12-11 14:53:47 · answer #4 · answered by Joh 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are right!! It has nothing to do with the truth. The birth of Christ was not even in this date. It comes from the romans, that took the idea from the persians. Related to the god Mitra, the god of light of the persian , the god of the sun who was born on the 25 of december. Mitraism was one of the official religion in Rome. They say that Constantino practiced until he converted to christianism.
All the things associated woth christmas that you mention have been taken from old pagan celebrations for other gods.
Nothing about celebrating christmas appears in the bible. God gave us many ocasions to celebrate and honour Him, but not this.
2007-12-11 15:10:28 · answer #5 · answered by nikkita 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What is really rubbish is the fact that Christianity superimposed their holidays onto Pagan celebrations in the first place in order to make it "easier" to convert. The real birth of Christ did not happen on December 25th.
And if you are that religious, you shouldn't need a holiday to help you focus on Christ. Let the rest of us enjoy the commercialization.
2007-12-11 14:45:56 · answer #6 · answered by ~Christine~ 3 · 3⤊ 4⤋
i attempt to verify it as a symbolic representation of Jesus's start, yet too many situations i'm getting sucked into the consumerism--stressing approximately what to get each and every person and how i will arise with the money for it.
2016-10-01 10:00:09 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heh. It was never about Christ, Christmas was derived from a Roman sex festival, a Norse feast and other pagan winter solstice festivals. The Puritans banned Christmas because of this.
2007-12-11 14:47:14 · answer #8 · answered by Eiliat 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
The day is going back to it's roots. We have Christian families openly deceiving their children with Santa Claus. Christmas trees are featured that have little or no religious signficance. Tradition has usurped contemplation and meditation.
It is no longer "Christ's Mass"
2007-12-11 14:48:33 · answer #9 · answered by wigginsray 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Why? Money. Most things come down to that.
2007-12-11 14:45:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋