Aaaah another year, another joyful Christ-mas.
One thing surprised me this year, more than it did the years before - have you noticed the way some people are trying to steal Christmas?! Yeah.. It’s disgusting! It all starts with the way the megacorporations are enforcing the “Happy Holidays!” instead of the common, yet appropriate, “Merry Christmas!” onto us. If you don’t believe me, just go to YouTube.com and try and send out a funny video card.
Having all that in my mind, I’m actually quite sympathetic to the fundamental argument of those righteous and god-faring people to keep “Christ in Christmas.” The holiday should be joyful, having loads of fun with family and close friends, but the orgy of consumerism that accompanies it has long since passed the point “no return” for an event allegedly celebrating the birth of our lord and savior. Yes - it’s Jesus’ birthday, so get off your heathen ass and fckuing celebrate! (Ms. Garrison - South Park).
Funny thing about this association- before christianity came along the “pagans” used to celebrate this time of year pretty most the way we Romanians do it - slaughtering animals for the gods, drinking and having fun. Things haven’t changed that much since Jesus came along anyway, so it kinda makes me wonder why we even celebrate Christmas? It’s not like he was born on December 25th. Actually history points out another birthday of a pagan demigod by the name of Mithras, also born out of a virgin. Jesus, Mithras, Osiris, Batman or Rambo - does it matter? It’s clear that we all need to have a savior, and at one point we need to celebrate his(her) birthday - might as well be this time of year.
I wish you all a Merry Christmas, Hanukkah, Festivus, Kwanzaa or whatever else you are keen on drinking about!
See you next year!
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