Unfortunately, Christmas – and we celebrate it – doesn’t mean much to me anymore. People might as well just call it a holiday and leave it at that. Here it is Christmas Eve and it doesn’t seem like we’re any closer to Christmas than we were on the Fourth of July. Why is that? What’s wrong with Christmas? Or perhaps, what’s wrong with us?
This holiday that our culture celebrates on the 25th of December has become an affront to the true meaning of the season. Sure we call it Christmas, but that’s not what it is. It has become an orgy for merchants. It has become an occasion for people to get themselves hopelessly in debt. It has become a long break from school or work. It has been an excuse to indulge in alcohol and gluttony.
We need to reform. Once we do, then we will be able to focus on the real Christmas, a time set aside to reverently obverse the anniversary of the birth of Jesus Christ. Through Him, God came into the world to rescue all of us from sin. He is our only hope. Without Him, we would have none. Thank God for the real Christmas.
I absolutely agree, except for where you state that the 25th of December is the 'anniversary of the birth of Jesus Christ'.
The 25th is the date of the Pegan festival of the sun-god Mirtha. The Roman Catholics adopted it under the instruction of Constantine.
As far as I am aware there is no historical evidence, scriptural or otherwise, that this date is the birth-day of Jesus.
Posted by: Antony Haase | December 25, 2011 at 06:58 PM