Anyone who knows me knows I don't care much for holidays and despise Christmas. Not for what it should be but for what it is. Anybody with a single iota of historical and/or religious knowledge knows it is completely impossible for Jesus to have been born on December 25th. Most especially, since like Easter, it would follow the Jewish calendar and vary in dates from year to year. The holiday which is now known as "Christmas" is an amalgamation of three pagan winter solstice celebration the "church" could not force the "pagans" to stop celebrating. For a few centuries it was even banned by the church. Since they could not stomp it out they just co-opted it, gave it a new name and went about their hypocritical business of fleecing the, so called, "Christian" world.
Not that I hate the idea of an honest winter solstice festival at all. It is just this Christmas thing has no purpose at all except for the profit of retail stores. I really don't give a shit whether Jesus was born on Christmas or not. Still, he is NOT "the reason for the season". He has been turned into a source of revenue for our retailers, for our churches and just about everything other than celebrating the birth of Christ.
No, the reason I despise Christmas if for its dishonesty. Christmas has become nothing but one big con on gullible people who either do not have the brains or common sense to see it and stop feeding the burden Christmas has placed on the ordinary person.
We recently sold our home and moved into an apartment in a local "town center" development. Right now, on Christmas Eve, Traffic is so bad it takes a complete fool to venture out in it unless there is a dire emergency. And, when I see it my first thought is, "Where the hell is everyone getting all this money?". Credit cards and, maybe, an advance on their projected tax refund. And for what?
Has nothing to do with Jesus, Christianity or any religion at all. It is simple greed. Don't believe me? Ask someone what they got for Christmas and find one, just one, who would say, "A wonderful time with my family celebrating the birth of our Lord and Savior". Just one. The pretense Christmas has anything to do with Jesus is sickening.
Take a look at your Christmas bills when they come in and tell me just how much more Jesus would appreciate this greed over donating the same amount of money to those who have real needs at this time of year. How many meals for the homeless would that shiny, new 85" TV would provide. Just how many of your "fellow Christians" would that new $1,000 telephone have helped? Have any of you at all ever read the bible and paid attention? Show me one, just ONE, bible verse where Jesus advocated greed. Seems the Jesus I've read about would have absolutely hated what his, so called, birthday party has become.
Like the "supposedly 'good' people" Mexico is sending us, I would imagine there are some sincere people who profess to be Christians doing things to truly reflect the teachings of Christ. Most, however, are, for me, numbered in the criminals and rapists (YOUR president's words) being foisted on us.
Give it a break people. Go on and keep driving us all deeper in debt and pretending it is anything other than peer pressure and has anything at all to do with the birth of Christ. Do whatever you want with your life and money. Just have the balls to admit why you do it.
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