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Originally Posted by OnTheFritz
Here's the bottom line. Do you really think that, regardless of origin, God will frown on someone using December 25 as a day to sincerely celebrate his birth and share gifts with family and friends? If you do, you're overthinking it. Are there reasons that the modern version of Christmas has been perverted into something materialistic and commercialized. Sure. Is that a reason not to observe it? Maybe so. I understand that position. But it can be celebrated in a spirit that is pleasing to God. I assure you.
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I have a book chronicling the history of Christmas. As Christmas observance fell from it’s Christian practice it became a day of total revelry and debauchery. It was even outlawed in the United States for the first 50 years of our nation’s existence because it was seen as such a great social evil. With the advent of commercialization, the holiday was tamed and made into a family oriented celebration. Commercialization saved society from the dark Christmas riotous behavior. We, especially as a free market nation, should welcome commercialization’s ability to tame social issues such as these… not decry it.
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