I have always disliked Christmas…

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  Pecky on December 23 at 9:51 a.m.

  I dislike every and any holiday with the word Hallmark in it.. EXCEPT for Christmas.

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  Phaedrus on December 23 at 9:55 a.m.

  Halloween.

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  coeurgenx on December 23 at 9:59 a.m.

  Valentines day, Canada day (LoL) and all the other Hallmark days.. Gotta love the celebratory days like St Patricks and Cinco de Mayo…. Christmas is only fun to give. I hate getting something I will never use and have to act excited to have recieved.

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  RathdrumBob on December 23 at 10:03 a.m.

  Valentine’s day, i.e. the original Hallmark Holiday. I told my wife to NEVER expect anything on Valentine’s day (we have been married over 39 years and I have kept my promise).

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  LukeB on December 23 at 10:28 a.m.

  Columbus Day. Utterly useless holiday celebrating a below-average naval captain who happened to stumble upon undiscovered land and then murder its inhabitants, some with his own hands.

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  hmoffsuite on December 23 at 10:33 a.m.

  >> Halloween.

  Me too.

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  Cabbage Boy on December 23 at 11:04 a.m.

  Wow Luke. Agenda much?

  Holiday are what they are, a reason to remember or celebrate an event. Making that the focus can change the perception that gets in the way of the celebration. Christmas is about the coming of Jesus in our home. We GIVE presents to remind us of the greatest gift given to mankind. The memory of the giving lasts much longer than the actual toy or trinket.

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  Orbusmax on December 23 at 11:50 a.m.

  Michael Medved rebuts: “Commercialization” Of Christmas Actually Shows Community and Giving

  http://townhall.com/columnists/MichaelMedved/2009/12/23/commercialization_of_christmas_actually_shows_community_and_giving

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  LukeB on December 23 at 11:56 a.m.

  No agenda, just stating the facts. Columbus is a poor choice as a person to celebrate with a national holiday.

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  Cabbage Boy on December 23 at 1:06 p.m.

  Perhaps those that feel so should voluntarily relinquish their citizenship on this hemisphere.

  I for one am glad Columbus tilted the flat world on its head and bravely sought a new world. Or whatever you want to believe he did.

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  Bent on December 23 at 1:15 p.m.

  I agree with Cis…The problem is you can’t take pass on Christmas like you can with Halloween or Valentine’s Day…

  If you do, society looks upon that as a terrible tragedy, or some sort of abuse or neglect. So instead, we get desperate people like the Santa Claus bank robber in the thread below this one, who is probably just trying to score enough cash to get the new x-box for his kids…

  Christmas is terribly stressful for families that are barely making it. I speak from experience. We’ve always made it work, but the stress over the years has taken a toll on my “holiday spirit…”

  So I rely on a little stress-reducing, twisted humor to get me through the season:

  http://sendables.jibjab.com/view/8XnapGFHQk2GQnUh

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  idawa on December 23 at 1:26 p.m.

  There is some fascinating research on Christmas spending by Economist Joel Waldfogel who wrote Scoogenomics examining how wasteful Christmas is, etc… fascinating stuff. One of the more interesting findings is that it appears the Christmas spending is NOT a luxury. Christmas spending tend to track like spending on necessities which might help explain the problem that people still feel like they have to spend a certain amount even when they don’t have it, thus producing the increases stress …

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  Megan_B on December 23 at 2:09 p.m.

  Christmas isn’t about Jesus anyways, he was born in March.

  Christmas was passed on form he Ancient Babylonian holiday that mourned the death of the god Tamuuz. Every year they would cut down a tree and decorate it is gold and silver, on top would be placed a star (the symbol of the goddess Easter, his mother) and then tree would slowly die in their homes as they mourned his death. Read Jeremiah chapter 10 Cabbage boy, since you like making biblical references so much.

  These holidays get passed onto new cultures and religions as empires merge, and people don’t want to let go of their precious celebrations (birthdays are another Babylonian celebration, btw).

  But don’t get me wrong, I don’t mean to sound like scrooge. Christmas is one of my favorite times of the year. I thoughtfully enjoy buying gifts for people, and having the family come together to celebrate. I even buy a tree and decorate it to the fullest (something I wasn’t allowed to do as a kid, because of the reasons I stated above). The difference is, I can recognize that the “meaning” behind it is scewed, so I make it into what I want it to be.

  And to all you haterz - Halloween is the funnest to decorate for, and Valentine’s day is my all-time favorite! <3

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  Cabbage Boy on December 23 at 2:47 p.m.

  Sure thing Megan. I have already read your recycled myths about the “true origins” of holiday x.

  So what if he was born in the spring. Funny you say March. Was that on the Julian or Augustinian calendar back then? There is theology behind when we celebrate the birth of Jesus which I won’t waste my time with here.

  But trust me, the extinct Babylonian culture wouldn’t have much influence on western civilization in this century.

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  spokelooneh on December 24 at 12:31 a.m.

  “So instead, we get desperate people like the Santa Claus bank robber in the thread below this one, who is probably just trying to score enough cash to get the new x-box for his kids…”
  -Bent

  Interesting, man. Never figured you for the Robin Hood justifying type. Or perhaps that was snark.

  Christ was likely born in the early summer, but in order to get the pagans on board with their biggest ceremony of the year, Yule, which occurred at winter soltice, well you know…adjustments were needed.

  The whole virgin birth of the Savior story predates Jesus by many hundreds of years, but that’s OK, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

  And the Sumerians, imagine their surprise:

  “Members of the earth’s earliest known civilization, the Sumerians, looked on in shock and confusion some 6,000 years ago as God, the Lord Almighty, created Heaven and Earth.

  According to recently excavated clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform script, thousands of Sumerians—the first humans to establish systems of writing, agriculture, and government—were working on their sophisticated irrigation systems when the Father of All Creation reached down from the ether and blew the divine spirit of life into their thriving civilization.

  “I do not understand,” reads an ancient line of pictographs depicting the sun, the moon, water, and a Sumerian who appears to be scratching his head. “A booming voice is saying, ‘Let there be light,’ but there is already light. It is saying, ‘Let the earth bring forth grass,’ but I am already standing on grass.”

  “Everything is here already,” the pictograph continues. “We do not need more stars.”

  Historians believe that, immediately following the biblical event, Sumerian witnesses returned to the city of Eridu, a bustling metropolis built 1,500 years before God called for the appearance of dry land, to discuss the new development. According to records, Sumerian farmers, priests, and civic administrators were not only befuddled, but also took issue with the face of God moving across the water, saying that He scared away those who were traveling to Mesopotamia to participate in their vast and intricate trade system.
  …”

  http://www.theonion.com/content/news/sumerians_look_on_in_confusion_as

  I mean, if you believe anthropologists, rather than Popes and such. Take your pick, it’s a free country.

  And throwing the money-changers out of the temple? Awesome advice, time immemorial. Now go to the closet and pray, as Jesus taught us.

  Merry Christmas!

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