Christmas eh? I see no christmas
I was reading Caitie's journal and i rememebred i meant to write something in here.
Around this time, schmucks begin to go into a Christmas frenzy. Jingle all the way and so on. Yet, what does christmas mean?
If you said the birth of christ...you were wrong. That is what it MEANT. Nowadays, no one learns about that. No one (i speak generally) cares. Its all about the cookies and fat men in tacky coats.
You all know how i feel about religion. So you may wonder why i care.
A holiday about hope and joy should not be cheapened into a gift-a-palooza. Go out and buy things ho ho ho. Get plastered on booze....but do it as a family. Go and do you best to get some ass at that christmas party...fa la lalala la la la lah.
Santa.
A perfect example.
Saint Nicholas was a catholic bishop living in turkey two hundred years ago...give or take. His claim to fame (and cannonization) lay in secretly providing the dowery for a family of poor pepole with three daughters that would otherwise have been sold into slavery. He also was fond of beating any children he found loitering and not hard at work.
A few decades ago, the first jolly fat man with the blue eyes hit the scene. Where? Coca-cola classic. Santa Clause is commin to town...on your pop bottles. Santa wants you to drink pop. WHy? Because the santa that kids stand in line for hours to be fondled by at the mall is an invention and (origionally) copyright of Coca-Cola.
Catholic saint.....buy more soda. Christmas tree...put stupid bangles on it ($10-$50 avg price for some types)
What actually spurred me to talk about this?
Spanish 3 teaches kids holliday vocab.
We had to teach them 'Nativity Scene' because that is still a big deal over in Spain. I asked them, "origionally, a long time ago, what happened on the first christmas." The 4th graders unanimously replied "Santa gave out the first presents!" I was stunned. So i ask, "NO, before that. The first EVER CHRISTmas. What happened. *takes in confused faces* Who was born?" *silence* Eventually, one kid says, "Santa was born?"
....
....
So i curse in spanish.
Then i ask, "Do you know about the nativity? When Jesus was born?"
"Oh yeah! he was born on christmas! That would be cool cause you'd get twice as many presents."
This holliday has been so dilluded by money and fat elfs that our young don't even know what it is about anymore. Stupendious.
As you all know, i respect the religion of others even if i don't agree with almost all of modern dogma. It is out of that respect that i take umbrage to this Pandemic in our fair (*snicker*) country.
Bah Humbug
~Sp
Around this time, schmucks begin to go into a Christmas frenzy. Jingle all the way and so on. Yet, what does christmas mean?
If you said the birth of christ...you were wrong. That is what it MEANT. Nowadays, no one learns about that. No one (i speak generally) cares. Its all about the cookies and fat men in tacky coats.
You all know how i feel about religion. So you may wonder why i care.
A holiday about hope and joy should not be cheapened into a gift-a-palooza. Go out and buy things ho ho ho. Get plastered on booze....but do it as a family. Go and do you best to get some ass at that christmas party...fa la lalala la la la lah.
Santa.
A perfect example.
Saint Nicholas was a catholic bishop living in turkey two hundred years ago...give or take. His claim to fame (and cannonization) lay in secretly providing the dowery for a family of poor pepole with three daughters that would otherwise have been sold into slavery. He also was fond of beating any children he found loitering and not hard at work.
A few decades ago, the first jolly fat man with the blue eyes hit the scene. Where? Coca-cola classic. Santa Clause is commin to town...on your pop bottles. Santa wants you to drink pop. WHy? Because the santa that kids stand in line for hours to be fondled by at the mall is an invention and (origionally) copyright of Coca-Cola.
Catholic saint.....buy more soda. Christmas tree...put stupid bangles on it ($10-$50 avg price for some types)
What actually spurred me to talk about this?
Spanish 3 teaches kids holliday vocab.
We had to teach them 'Nativity Scene' because that is still a big deal over in Spain. I asked them, "origionally, a long time ago, what happened on the first christmas." The 4th graders unanimously replied "Santa gave out the first presents!" I was stunned. So i ask, "NO, before that. The first EVER CHRISTmas. What happened. *takes in confused faces* Who was born?" *silence* Eventually, one kid says, "Santa was born?"
....
....
So i curse in spanish.
Then i ask, "Do you know about the nativity? When Jesus was born?"
"Oh yeah! he was born on christmas! That would be cool cause you'd get twice as many presents."
This holliday has been so dilluded by money and fat elfs that our young don't even know what it is about anymore. Stupendious.
As you all know, i respect the religion of others even if i don't agree with almost all of modern dogma. It is out of that respect that i take umbrage to this Pandemic in our fair (*snicker*) country.
Bah Humbug
~Sp