The Loving Cross


Monday, December 8, 2008

Merry Christmas

Christmas is a mixed blessing. It's a time of year when we all try very hard to do nice things for each other, giving gifts etc. However it seems that we get dragged down by all the commercialism and the phony red and green pseudohappiness. Celebrating the birth of a saviour is a wonderful thing, but going into debt to give everyone exactly what they want is a bad thing. You cant always get what you want, give them inexpensive but meaningful things. I worked for a few years in a major toy store. We, the employees, dreaded Christmas because of the crowds and rudeness that came out of even the nicest people. One year our store sold out of video games, and still people came by the hundreds to get that Nintendo. I was forced to turn them all back with a phony smile. I hated Christmas. One gentleman decided to take it out on me personally for his child not getting a Nintendo that year. I faked that smile as long as I could but really I wanted to tell that guy what a butthole he was being. So I guess my message this year is I'm kinda glad the economy is crappy because maybe it will take the greed and unkindness out of Christmas, maybe it will make people realize what Christmas is really all about, maybe it wont be so material and maybe we can have the spiritual celebration of Christs birth that it was meant to be. Merry Christmas to all even the atheists.

A note to you atheists, stop taking Christmas away from the kids who believe just to protect your child. I'll get all Spock on ya, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. There are a lot more Christian and faith based families then there are atheist families.