ChatterBank0 min ago
Christmas May Die Out......
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....so says a government review
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but really, is that such a bad thing when to most people in britain now (apart from the devout) it has no religious significance and is now nothing more than an orgy of consumerist consumption?
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but really, is that such a bad thing when to most people in britain now (apart from the devout) it has no religious significance and is now nothing more than an orgy of consumerist consumption?
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well it's started already this year so I'd say it's a long way from dying out. Christmas has it's basis in religion of course but really it is mostly treated as anything but. I am an atheist but Christmas is so ingrained in our society that it's religious significance is really peripheral to me and I suspect most people.
Christmas in it's real definition died out years ago, more to the shame.
When I was young, I along with my brother would construct a manger from an old tea chest, furbish it with straw, a small manger, model animals and three wise men, then light it all up with a battery and bulb.
Then of course we would go out carol singing with our own made lanterns made from a tin with an aperture cut out and in which we placed a candle.
That too me was the magic of Christmas.
When I was young, I along with my brother would construct a manger from an old tea chest, furbish it with straw, a small manger, model animals and three wise men, then light it all up with a battery and bulb.
Then of course we would go out carol singing with our own made lanterns made from a tin with an aperture cut out and in which we placed a candle.
That too me was the magic of Christmas.
I really do not like christmas....so I would welcome it's demise...listening to people worrying about the debt they have got into through overspending on gifts that are mostly unwanted or that will be consigned to the back of a cupboard, eating far too much, the drunken behaviour of many and the loneliness of many many people. There is little religious content in most people's Christmas so therefore no reason for the whole country to come to a standstill for the few...
//We still celebrate Guy Fawkes' capture and I am sure there are many who know nothing about the religious connexion so who is to say that the same will not happen to Christmas, come time? //
the difference, I think, TCL, is that Mr Fawkes didn't become an icon of his own religion; rather, he was no more than adherent of a particular branch of an existing religion that fell out of favour with the English establishment.
the difference, I think, TCL, is that Mr Fawkes didn't become an icon of his own religion; rather, he was no more than adherent of a particular branch of an existing religion that fell out of favour with the English establishment.
Christmas virtually died out at least 30 years ago. But the commercial celebration that takes place every December is far too big a commercial enterprise to ever be allowed to die out. Remember most shops make at least 35% of the years profit in the last 2 weeks of December! Some make over 75% of the entire years profit in those 2 weeks!
Without fail there is an article like this every year in the newspapers and every year it proves false.
Without fail there is an article like this every year in the newspapers and every year it proves false.
