Christmas has become a secular celebration and lost so much of its magic 🔵 Does anyone else get to 26 or 27 December and find the whole celebration a little insubstantial? ✍️ EliotWilson2 for ipaperviews
It is almost now a Christmas tradition for a right-winger with the scars of the culture wars on his or her face to invent a story about the greeting “Merry Christmas!” being somehow banned or discouraged. Usually there is a sub-plot about the imposition of “Happy holidays!” or some other generic utterance, which suffers from the double annoyance of being secular and, somehow, American.
We are, certainly, becoming a society which demands a more convenient, personalised, dare I say “bespoke” service from our faith. We all know people who say “Well, I wouldn’t call myself ‘religious’, but I think of myself as a very spiritual person”, which is all well and good, if massively annoying;. A Christian’s relationship with God often depends on rite and ceremony, and just busking it at home because it’s raining isn’t quite in the spirit of the whole business.
What is Christmas, anyway? Is it really a joyful celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, the only son of God, made flesh? I Googled “words most associated with Christmas”, and I have to tell you, Father, the results have not come back looking good. The first ones include: merry, festive, Santa Claus, Saint Nicholas, Kris Kringle, elves, jolly, reindeer and carols.
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