They put that cheap crap in the aisles before Halloween because people will buy it.
Christians could easily vote with their pocketbooks on this one.
I have refused to participate in that horrendous Black Friday thing, which has ruined Thanksgiving weekend. I will not buy anything but food during those days.
There are so many things wrong with Christmas — the commercialization, the frenzy, and, as the author points out, the history of the holiday. It’s most unlikely that Christ was born in wintertime, all scriptural hints pointing to a September birth.
Not to mention that the Gospel, defined, is the Resurrection, not the birth. But the Resurrection couldn’t have happened without the birth, so I’m fine with anything that will get people into the Word for a day or two.
But it is a man-made holiday, and increasingly messed up by man.
I'll bump that...
the 'concensus' date doesnt really rub me wrong tho for the same reason...
the humility to be born into the human world, puttin the crown on hold, is amazing, to say the least...