Posted Dec 25, 2006 by shagbark
I can hardly let that last sentence go unchallenged.
Many christians (myself included) feel that it is a secularization of the holiday to exult Santa above the one whose title the Holday encloses- Christ.
We believe it is the markweting gurus of a secular society who have
"pragmatically adapted and integrated" him into our Christian traditions not we ourselves.
Just as they have "pragmatically adapted and integrated" many of the facets of Samhein into a marketing ploy to make halloween a major holiday.
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Posted Dec 25, 2006 by Leopardskinfynn... sexy mama
One could say that the Christmas holiday isn't really about Jesus anyway. Seems that Christianity 'borrowed' this holiday from previous religions, in particular that of Mithras.
http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/godsreligion/a/mithraismstudy.htm
http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/jesus/qt/jesusbirthdate.htm
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Posted Dec 25, 2006 by shagbark
You will note that the name of the holiday is not Mithrasday.
Regardless of how much Christians have borrowed, or the fact that Jesus was not really born on 25 December in the year of our Lord Zero,It is still a holiday that christians have celebrated for over a thousand years as the day when God took on flesh, and was born in Bethlehem. It also is not Kris Kringle day or Frosty the Snowman day or Grinch Day, or Ebeneezer Scrooge day,and it rankles me to see the prominence these cultural trappings have acquired just in the last twenty years.
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Posted Dec 31, 2006 by Leopardskinfynn... sexy mama
I think you'll find that this time of year has been a sacred time for many thousands of years before Christianity turned up, with various faiths finding it a good time to eat, drink and be merry.
I'm sorry that you find it distasteful that the cultural trappings surrounding christmas these days are not to your liking. Maybe you could see it as another re-invention of an ancient holiday with modern trappings that reflect the current culture.
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