What Christmas means to me.

[opsspec1991]

Growing up Christmas was always a special time for me, family and loved one’s getting together, a feel of goodwill everywhere and last but not least, and exchanging of gifts.

It really saddens me to see what this time of year has become. You see anti-Christmas signs, liberal left wing groups (ACLU) demo grating religious displays, Christmas & Santa being removed from our schools, and it’s a really sad time to see these kinds of things happening.

Let the kids enjoy Christmas and leave all of this bull **** out of the picture of what Christmas is meant to be, rejoicing the birth of Christ and the great feeling of being with family, loved one’s and friends where ever they may be.

 

[N R A]

I grew up with the Grandma and Apple Pie, Santa, toys, socks, and I must say, if someday, we have a generation, with a love of right and wrong, without the fear of the boogey man on one side, and the lure of Santa on the other, I am OK with that.
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I never had kids, but if I did, would I feed them Santa stories, hide money under pillows, boogie man stories after the streetlights come on? Maybe. But I would hope, as a society, we could someday, hug our kids, just because we want to, and not because it is a make believe ritual to run up credit card debt.
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For the joy some of us see, this is an incredibly hard time of year for many. Depression, money issues, family fights on how to do traditions.
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32 years ago, when my wife and I got married, we agreed not to do the holiday fluff stuff. Very little. It has worked out pretty well.
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Still, the movie The Christmas Story is pretty entertaining. "You'll Shoot Your Eye Out Kid!"
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[Oldgrunt]

Atheistic organizations may take away the Christmas decorations we all grew up with but there is one thing they will never take away. That is our love of Jesus Christ. Different organizations are trying their hardest to eliminate God from our society and vocabulary but they will never succeed. I will admit Christmas has become commercialized and the reason for the celebration diminished but thankfully, God will never leave us. Anyway, Merry Christmas.

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[XD40scinNC]

The commercialism of Christmas has destroyed it for anyone that has learned the truth about Santa.

Starting before the thanksgiving turkey is even set out to thaw we see stories of mob scenes, fist fights, or lines around a big box store that has a couple of big TV's on sale. The materialistic greed is obscene, and typically over crap. Do you really need an 80" TV to watch the drivel that comes across it? Will your child be scared for life if they don't get the "in" toy of the season, made by children in a sweat shop in a country that knows about Christmas only because of the demand for their cheap crap they export?

Supposedly we are the greatest country, the most powerful economy on the planet (well used to be) and according to the retailers it will all collapse if the Black Friday (now a week long event) sales don't drive the economy (theirs and China's) into the black.

Yes, we always hear the same old tired "peace on earth, goodwill to men", but it is really no different than someone saying "bless you" if you sneeze, it is just a hollow knee jerk reaction. Growing up I had a number of Catholic friends, and of course they were all dragged off to midnight mass, and they hated it, even before Christmas became such a commercialized feeding frenzee.

 

[airtech]

Ho,ho,ho

 

[mappow]

A righteous belief that all men are created equal and the blessings of the Lord, our God, to bestow his son to us. The rest is man made.
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May God Bless you all on this celebration of his birth! Even those that do not believe.