Canadians love Christmas. No matter how or why we celebrate
it, Christmas is the holiday time! Of course Christmas is many things to
many people. For some it’s just another holiday, for others its Santa clause
and the giving of gifts. This one is very important because without it most
businesses could not survive. Many retail businesses do over 90% of their sales
during the Christmas season! Without it the economy would come to a grinding
halt.
The true meaning of course is the celebration of the birth
of Christ. For hundreds of years Christmas has been celebrated as a time of
love and family and devotion yet this most wonderful time is under attack.
There are those who feel that the meaning of Christmas should be all inclusive
and because of that the name should be changed. This is happening right under
the apathetic eyes of the very Christians whose celebration it is. My own
Muslim friends think it quite strange that Christians would stand for such a
thing. They say they would never allow such a thing in their religion.
I must admit I too am ashamed at the apathy within the
Christian churches but mostly with its people. Christmas has become a buying
holiday and it’s because Christians are unwilling or afraid to stand up for
their own beliefs. So I am standing up for Christmas.
Number one: I will say Merry Christmas to everyone I speak to
in conversation.
Secondly I will refuse to purchase any product from any
store that does not greet me or respond by saying Merry Christmas. That’s
right. Christmas is not Festivous or Seasons greetings or the Holiday
time, it’s Christmas. If the retail stores cannot recognise their major profit
season and tell their staff to say Merry Christmas then I’m out of there. I
have spoken to many sales people and they say the store actually forbids them
to respond to Merry Christmas! These people who make their daily bread off of
the celebration of Christmas should at least recognise it by name! Imagine if
every Christian did this. The store would change their policy over night or go
broke but more importantly Christians would maybe start to grow a spine about
their beliefs.
What do you think and more importantly what are you going to do
about it?
Oh, and for those who don’t believe in Christmas, stop being such
hypocrites by celebrating and taking time off. Stay in your job over the season
and refuse to partake in the holiday in any way. That would be the moral thing
to do. And, to the rest of us, a very Merry Christmas.
