^ The commercialization of Christmas is a direct result of many things; abundance (when you have money, you want to enjoy it and when it’s gone, it takes a looong time before you can realize that you can’t spend money that is gone), smaller families (we have few children, now, so we keep them children as long as possible, and we spoil them. A lot) the rise of departmnt store (they invented christmas parades!) Advertising (the modern red-clad Santa was born in a Coke ad), parents feeling guilty about spending less and less time with their children and compensing with gifts, divorced parents competing for their children’s love, children using posessions to compete against each other (Having lots of toys often means being popular), movies and tv, credit cards and the banking system in general.
But put back the manger and you won’t change the attitude. People will simply buy huge, expensive mangers instead of huge, expensive fake candy canes.
People are that way, more inclined towards the materian stuff you can see than spirituality. Just look at the Vatican, or even non-christia religious temples, and you’ll see that even when they pretend loving God, people always end up loving wealth more.
When they don’t simply use God as a way to get wealth.
^ The commercialization of Christmas is a direct result of many things; abundance (when you have money, you want to enjoy it and when it’s gone, it takes a looong time before you can realize that you can’t spend money that is gone), smaller families (we have few children, now, so we keep them children as long as possible, and we spoil them. A lot) the rise of departmnt store (they invented christmas parades!) Advertising (the modern red-clad Santa was born in a Coke ad), parents feeling guilty about spending less and less time with their children and compensing with gifts, divorced parents competing for their children’s love, children using posessions to compete against each other (Having lots of toys often means being popular), movies and tv, credit cards and the banking system in general.
But put back the manger and you won’t change the attitude. People will simply buy huge, expensive mangers instead of huge, expensive fake candy canes.
People are that way, more inclined towards the materian stuff you can see than spirituality. Just look at the Vatican, or even non-christia religious temples, and you’ll see that even when they pretend loving God, people always end up loving wealth more.
When they don’t simply use God as a way to get wealth.