I am still struggling to understand what’s the big deal about Christmas time and I have decided to outline some of the reasons why I don’t see thee whole shebang about the famed season.
Oh come on… humor me… Read the whole thing, If you don’t agree, leave me a comment telling me why! 
1 – “Christmas is season to be jolly… tra la la la la la la la la” Then why is it that December, and in specific Christmas time has the highest index of depression in the year? I know the great majority of the population is very Jolly throughout December because of the holidays (and the holidays parties where everyone seems to overindulge a bit too much and don’t deny it one way or another you know you do it!) … but helloooo… what about the other 11 months of they year… can’t they be jolly too???
2 – Shopping sprees, debt, stress, consumerism, “I want this and that and that other thing” from you kid in a daily basis, advertisement going into overdrive building up since well… October(ish), etc etc etc… got the drill??
3 – Jesus was not born in December (ouch… did you know that? if you didn’t there are studies about it all over the internet… google it… the consent is something between August and September, if you did know that… wth…) … how come we commemorate his birthday in December??? Is “the most important day in the Christian Calendar” commemorated in the wrong day? Again… ouch…
4 -Even if JC were born in December, for the first 300 (ish) years of Christian tradition his birth day was never celebrated (it is true… check the bible)… It was customary at the time to celebrate the death and not the birth of an important person. That is apart from some “pagan” cultures that actually used co commemorate the “birth” of their deities.
It was only in 435ac that the Christ Mass” was first instituted by pope Sixtus III in a celebration to coincide with the birth of the Romans primary god (the Sun) and Mithras a popular Persian sun god supposed to be born at the same day. The idea was to associate the one to the other to “facilitate” the assimilation and consolidation of the pagan masses to the Empire assuring their loyalty (smart guy… Religion=Power)
5 – None of the ornaments used in the whole Christmas Shebang has a Christian origin in it’s symbolism most of them being inherited by the Germanic Barbarians… Sure… all of them have Christian symbolic meaning now… just not on their origins…
So much for the “Main Christian Celebration” of the year uh…
I could say more… but I am kinda late… and nope… I am not against getting the whole family together and giving presents to each other, eat good food etc… The thing that bothers me is the reasons we do it… after all that can be done any day of the year can’t it?
Wouldn’t it be GREAT if we were jolly… and together more often?? Do we really NEED the excuse???
“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet”… (From Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet)
Do I make any sense to you?? Do you and your family celebrate Christmas?? What does it mean to you?? What DO you celebrate at Christmas??
Zya!
