Happy Holidays? Bah! Humbug!

I blame Burl Ives. Thanks to Burl and those awful holiday specials of his (that killed clamation for decades) Christmas started sucking. Once it stopped being a fun holiday the flood gates were open to all the questioning and tweaking. Christmas is easily my least favorite holiday, while I enjoy giving gifts, and who doesn't enjoy getting them the whole rest of the holiday sucks. Most of the songs blow, the TV specials are crap, the "very special" episodes are always the worst of the year, the lights are annoying, carolers are always out of tune, and everybody bitching that their religion isn't getting enough attention should shut up (really Christian folks complaining about not enough Christianity seems to make up the majority of the opinion pieces this time of year; while I agree that Christianity doesn't get a fair shake, especially this time of year, the griping is really overblown).

Overall everything sucks this time of year, and it all starts with some bad clamations featuring awful songs that we had to watch every freaking year (why do parents make their kids watch the specials? the parents know these things suck, if the kid doesn't wanna don't make him). Of course younger people won't understand this. We now live in a world with cable and VCRs, you actually can avoid those awful movies. Not when I was a kid, 3 channels and all of them were showing something lame, and if you said they were awful people called you Scrooge. Have you actually watched this crap?! It is lame.

Now I watch mob movies this time of year, thank God for DVD. Nothing like Joe Pesci swearing like a sailor whose private parts just got shot off and stabbing people with a pen to really clean that awful Christmas time stench out of your brain and leave you ready to remember the important things about Christmas: love and giving, peace and goodwill. There's really nothing like not being forced to endure hours of bad entertainment on the real meaning of Christmas to actually allow you to enjoy the real meaning of Christmas. Do your kids a favor, don't make them watch holiday specials if they don't want to, they might actually grow up to like holidays.

I also like the slightly off Christmas movies, you know Die Hard, Mixed Nuts, the Ref. Good stuff. I really think this time of year would be much less depressing and annoying if the entertainment industry would cut way back on the sacharine.

I'd be your biggest fan if you freepmailed me some Goodfellas links. I can always use more .wavs that revolve around the F word. They're so handy to tie to Windows errors.

Merry CHRISTmas to you Mary. : )

Well said. The idea of human deprevity and sin is being replaced. Instead of being born in sin and enemies to God, we are told we are A-moral. Now it's we are just plain good. Choosing God when we want and basically running the universe from our autonomous hearts.

I prefer the true Christmas Herald.
Though I was DOA, deserving of Hell and an all around rebel in this Kingdom. I was remade, reborn, adopted and made an heir to the King.
I am eternally grateful for a gift I did not ask for and left to my own "choosing" would have discarded without a thought.

The work of being involved in Church and developing into an Elder with Biblical wisdom is hard work. It's a collision course with not only the culture but pop theology and they ain't gonna sit quietly. The Book of Joshua is great wisdom for fighting the modern day baalism. Secular humanism. And it starts with our own idols.

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