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It makes me cringe when ignorant people talk about how christmas is a cultural festival/celebration..without knowing how it came so..Christmas was not a secular cultural celebration 100 years. The concept that it is has been proliferated by corporations who exploit people into spending money on 'their loved ones' in the secular 'holiday' season. The very idea that Christmas should be a celebration for everyone most probably came about in a Executive Board Meeting.Practise and belief of the Christian Religion has been declining quite rapildy in the last 100 years, that's a hell of a lot of customers organisations would/will have lost who will/would spend money on Christmas becos of their Religious affiliation. The solution ? turn in into a cultural/secular celebration so everyone spends money on it.
Christmas was never really a Christian celebration. They borrowed it from the Roman/pagan idea of a mid winter feast.Plus Jesus was born in September.
Quote from: Digital Pimpin' on December 16, 2010, 08:35:15 AMChristmas was never really a Christian celebration. They borrowed it from the Roman/pagan idea of a mid winter feast.Plus Jesus was born in September.Christianity was never really a Christian thing. They borrowed pretty much everything from older stories & religions.For example the story of genesis was originally a Sumerian story main difference being, The God they credited for creating the universe was the evil temptress in the Christian story
Christmas was never really a Christian celebration. They borrowed it from the Roman/pagan idea of a mid winter feast.
For me Christmas is the one time I get to hang out with my entire family at once (and yes, spend money on each other). So I guess, thank you corporations?
Quote from: THE RAPTURE on December 20, 2010, 06:22:12 PMFor me Christmas is the one time I get to hang out with my entire family at once (and yes, spend money on each other). So I guess, thank you corporations?lolwhy do you need a TV box or a company to tell you when you can spend time wiht your 'loved ones'
Quote from: Momo on December 21, 2010, 05:20:58 AMQuote from: THE RAPTURE on December 20, 2010, 06:22:12 PMFor me Christmas is the one time I get to hang out with my entire family at once (and yes, spend money on each other). So I guess, thank you corporations?lolwhy do you need a TV box or a company to tell you when you can spend time wiht your 'loved ones'Because corporations don't need you to work on Christmas and therefore every body is available to hang which isn't that achievable during the rest of the year.