Now I like Christmas music (not really) as much as the next guy, but this is where I stand on not only this, but Christmas in general.
If you are reading this from anywhere other than USA or a westernized culture you might wonder the same thing as I do. Why do we have to start Christmas so early?? And why make it such a big deal???
For every other holiday we wait till the day or the Eve of that day to actually consider celebrating it. Not for this one. During October I saw Christmas lights going up, during the season of Halloween. That is ridiculous to me. People will argue, "Well it takes a long time to put those lights up." Yeah maybe if you do it yourself and are not apart of the giant gatherings that happen to drive through neighborhoods at night to see them. Even then I'm like, "You paid someone to do that." they're like, "It still takes them a long time." Maybe a day at the most!! What I have noticed about life is that if you start doing something, and you get really good at it. Chances are it will take you no time at all! You have people where there job is to go through a neighborhood and put up stupid lights!!
Other people still argue, "It's the season of giving." That's great! I am all for that. Giving things away to those that are less fortunate than yourself is probably the greatest thing of all time. I personally LOVE "Operation Christmas Child" it may not mean much, but when I can't afford to do things for my own family, giving away a gift to a child that I may never meet is one of the coolest ideas to me. I cry every year for that program or whatever you want to call it. Almost as bad as those Sarah McG commercials (if you know what I am talking about). However, when you do something like this...
Don't be offended when I don't believe you when you tell me, "I was thinking of others." Non-sense. People have gotten really selfish. That is unfortunately how we are. At least in a westernized type culture.
Next we have this group, "It's a time to celebrate the birth of Christ." I am pretty sure I said that I am a die hard follower of Jesus in my last post which is why I am going to school at a Christian college to be a preacher, but that doesn't mean that I don't have my disagreements with the church "system." I digress the topic of "Religion" may be my next thing I talk about...
Anyway, I also see this as a form of "justification" or an excuse to do the "stupid" if you will. I don't think going around putting this up...
Once a year in your lawn is proclaiming Christ. This tells me, "Look at me I can put up cardboard cut-outs on my lawn in an order that I looked up on the internet." Then you have people driving or walking by being like, "Oh look at that another one. I didn't know we had so many Christians in our neighborhood."
A few things are wrong with this style of thinking in terms of the scence itself. Such as 1). The bible does not say how many "wise men" or "magi" there were. It only says they showed up with gifts. 2). Bible says he was born "in a manger" that is basically a barn. So why do we make it look like the most perfect thing in the world like it was perhaps comfortable to have a baby there? Animals wouldn't have cared to look at baby Jesus. They were ANIMALS! They were probably all thinking, "What is this thing and why is it in my food?" They were all honey badgers inmy opinion and didn't care! Which brings me to point 3). Jesus was a baby. How many babies have you seen that look super holy and awesome after coming out of the womb.
Lastly music. Now i have a few songs that I like, but do we really need to hav them start playing 2 months in advance? I just...I don't understand it. I also just dislike how long they last. Like 2 months before and a 1 month after seems ridiculous to me. Oh well, that's all I gotta say. I know I said that was what I was mainly going to talk about, but things happen ya known? Haha now time to read me some LOTR!!
