Christmas - what is the point?

[Randomnerd]

People will be complaining about New Year next

Don't get me started. Boils my p**s all that Hootenanny b***ox. Should be banned. If I was in charge, I'd......

 

[tyreon]

I managed to survive this Christmas Day. I classify myself and my life as a misfit. I blame it all on days such as this. I was particularly brutalised in my youth by having to watch Sunday Night and the London Palladium. Real cruelty there. Carols,then prayers(on tv)then some anodyne(tv) tripe for dessert. Radio was the same,possibly worse. Unfortunately at the time I didn't know about self-harm,cos then I might have alleviated some of the boredom. Still,on the premise that if something doesn't kill you it makes you stronger,I can now face and overcome boredom and which many of todays young pups know little of. Think of an empty sodden football ground with no one on it. Maybe two seagulls. Nothing happening. Hours after hour...after hour,after hour. Pure training for facing that wall,Soto Zen style. English winters make us men!
Slightly off topic: instead of the torture that is Gitmo,why not have the inmates watch Strictly(Come Dancing). Uncle! Surrender! Pure pap

 

[mjr]

Let's ban the commercialisation of Xmas and sack Santa. It should be a purely religious festival for Christians... a bit like Whitsunday.

It's not their festival. Flaming usurpers.

 

[FishFright]

Err ... it is. The early Church may have usurped the date for their festival but Christmas is, by it’s very definition, a Christian festival. The names a bit of a give away.

The renaming / appropriation of historic festivals gives away the game in a much bigger way.

 

[mjr]

Err ... it is. The early Church may have usurped the date for their festival but Christmas is, by it’s very definition, a Christian festival. The names a bit of a give away.

Who cares about its recent name? Tree worship and lots of silver (associated with evil in several Christian stories) are a bit of a giveaway it's not originally a Christian festival.

 

[MontyVeda]

Who cares about its recent name? ...

Hundreds of millions of Christians? You can argue 'til you're blue in the face about older festivals... but Xmas is a christian festival... always has been.

 

[numbnuts]

Hundreds of millions of Christians? You can argue 'til you're blue in the face about older festivals... but Xmas is a christian festival... always has been.

But I wonder for how much longer – “Happy Holiday”..........

 

[MontyVeda]

But I wonder for how much longer – “Happy Holiday”..........

Holiday also has christian connotations. Have you been reading the Daily Mail again?

 

[smutchin]

Who cares about its recent name? Tree worship and lots of silver (associated with evil in several Christian stories) are a bit of a giveaway it's not originally a Christian festival.

Ancient pagan rituals have even less relevance to a secular 21st century society than some cult leader being born in a cave 2000 years ago.

 

[mjr]

Holiday also has christian connotations. Have you been reading the Daily Mail again?

Season's greetings to you all

 

[Julia9054]

Has this become a game of World religion bottom trumps?

Tbf with all that rich food, bottom trumps are very Christmassy!