Christmas is getting too commercial....

Linoge

I mean what ever happened to it being all about Jebus?

Just wanted to bring to light that no one has started a thread about this topic so far this Christmas. Why? This is the most interesting topic we could possibly discuss, what with all the commercialism and Christmas and stuff.

We could get a hot debate going back and forth and oh how we would laugh, but then when the laughter stops we will have learned a lesson. Never eat yellow snow.

Canis Lupus

ok...

p.pete

Linoge wrote:

I mean what ever happened to it being all about Jebus?

When was the last Christmas, that you can remember that was all about "Jebus"?

I counter that Christmas may have crossed the line into the realm of "too comercial" a long time ago. Now that it's there, unless there is a reversal it's no longer possible for it to get too comercial.

D!ve^Bomb!

i think jesus and santa are the same person..

Mossy Monk

clearly not

Jesus comes from the sunshine,
Santa from the cold

what more proof is needed, Santa decides who naughty and nice, not Jesus. more proof

Gilgamesh

Maybe Santa is Jebus's evil twin brother then. We could have a Ying and Yang sort of thing going on then.

just think, most of the things are opposite when you compare the two, hehe

Kêrmêttê

I went past a house yesterday and experienced something I can only describe as disturbing.

You know the way there is a trend of late to put gigantic illuminations on the front of your house? Big Santas, snowmen, flashing lights etc.??
Well, I was looking at all these starting to appear on random houses. Also the odd christmas tree in living rooms and front porches here and there.

Then there was the "House of Extreme Oddness". :eek:

This family had decided to put a life sized illuminated nativity in the window of their living room. It was the weirdest thing I'd ever seen. All the people were commenting on it as they passed by. Funnily enough there weren't many good comments that I heard. The general feeling was that it was very creepy looking and a little out of place.
Now granted, the figures were life sized and to have Mary, Jesus, Joseph, a Shepard and a sheep shoved in your living room window would be pretty freaky looking, but, most people just thought it was odd to see a religious display in someones window.

I think that not only has Jesus been taken out of Christmas, but a lot of people aren't too bothered about it either. I got the feeling that if there had been 15 life sized Santas or Snowmen in this family's window no one would have batted an eyelid.

Dave

I think that says more about the ever decreasing role of religion and the church in Ireland today, more than the commercialism of Christmas.

seamus

Kêrmêtt&#234 wrote:

I think that not only has Jesus been taken out of Christmas, but a lot of people aren't too bothered about it either. I got the feeling that if there had been 15 life sized Santas or Snowmen in this family's window no one would have batted an eyelid.

Christmas has nothing to do with Jesus anymore. It's about time too. People were celebrating his birthday on the wrong day for hundreds of years. How pissed off would that make him?

Christmas is much better, more relaxed, more fun, less tension, less bull**** since I stopped going to mass. Tis great.

koneko

For me it's a bout presents, but I don't believe in this Jebus fella tbh.

Sleepy

The Holiday season had nothing to do with Jesus in the first place. It was the celebration of Dionysus's birth so maybe it's a good thing that Christianity is being taken out of the equation.

And given the notion that God is dead, if indeed he ever existed, and that rampant commercialism is our modern deity, doesn't it make sense for our mid-winter celebrations to glorify commercialism?

simu

Sleepy wrote:

The Holiday season had nothing to do with Jesus in the first place. It was the celebration of Dionysus's birth so maybe it's a good thing that Christianity is being taken out of the equation.

And given the notion that God is dead, if indeed he ever existed, and that rampant commercialism is our modern deity, doesn't it make sense for our mid-winter celebrations to glorify commercialism?

So true.

I see Christmas as an opportunity to stuff myself with quality food and drink to see me through the bleak months of the new year. I'll buy a few small presents for a few people (and myself!) and that's it! If you think it's too commercial, stay out of shopping centres and buy anything you need on-line.

Phil_321

This year so far, I've heard almost nothing about the religious significance of Christmas. This in itself is reason enough to be in a celebratory mood.
I'll take Santa Claus over Jebus any day of the week.

Capt'n Midnight

The yanks have the right idea, thanksgiving, get the slushy sentimenatlity and family togetherness over before the shopping season.