Christmas is too commercial

You all suck balls
I love chrismas
It is awsome
yeah

Christmas is awsome.
All the other guys are wierd
Even though I did not get much for christmas it was still awsome.

Dis guy below is just RANDOM, wat the hell is 'fromal'? I think christmas is really all about spending money nowa days, it's really sad if you compare today's with traditional Christmas.

Please next time post your name and date of post. This will help viewers in the future. Also could you please be a bit more fromal.

Far too much waste of money and food send the money too somebody in the world that really needs it

Funny you should say that GL; I've just watched the "Horizon" programme from Tuesday about black holes, which also touched on the big bang.

The current theory is that everything came from a singularity at the centre of a super large black hole, where the atoms are tightly packed (instead of moving in relatively huge orbits as they do now in normal matter) and where gravity was pretty much infinite. The universe is all expanding away from that event, including lots of smaller black holes.

Astronomers are currently trying to "see" the black hole at the centre of our galaxy in the hope that they may be able to come up with a theory uniting quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity. The problem is that you can't actually "see" a black hole as no light can escape it, but they are hoping to see the event horizon surrounding it.

It was very interesting; try to catch a repeat sometime, or you could probably see it on the iplayer.

grumpyoldwoman

Yes, I have to agree, if God and Jesus exist, and God made us all, who made God?

And if someone made God, who made that someone?

I can go along with us all evolving over billions of years from "primeval soup", microbes evolving to humans,

But one thing that does muck up my head thinking about it, is where did all the material come from in the very first place?, the stars, planets, rock, metals, water, where did it all come from in the very first place? there must have been a time when space was empty,

But I will still be putting up the xmas tree in December.

I'm sorry to bust your bauble, but jesus (if there was ever such a person) was not born nor did die on dec 25th of any year. He is a myth, made up from story tellers.
Jesus loves me, this I know, because the bible tells me so....
What a load of cod w.....p !

Christmas is too commercial. Return it to a Christian festival for the birth of Jesus. Christmas should be about carols, not dashing around spending hundreds of pounds!

Christmas is a big mixture of traditions from paganism, more modern religions, other traditions and now the great god commercialism. I wouldn't mind if it started in December and carried on until the New Year, but when it starts in August and ends on Boxing Day I think it is taking the mick just a bit. The thing that makes the most sense in our cold climate is that it marks the longest night and the return of the spring. Things start to grow again after December. If you think, long ago, this was important to people when they relied on what they grew for their survival. Now we buy everything in Tescos. I prefer New Year, it is less commercial.

Hi, I have a seen essay tomorrow and have a choice of the topic "The Christian ritual of Christmas has never really been about Christ, it has been hijacked for commercial purposes". I have been rather interested by all the responses I have found on websites like this; from the deeply religious, the 'reason for the season' people, the 'give me gifts and money' mob, the people who are all about the family, as I've seen here; the people that don't care at all, and all other spaces in between. I've haven't always appreciated all that I have received, Christmas or not, but this is not in the true 'spirit', as it were, of Christmas. I have noted that many of what would be considered 'commercial' aspects of Christmas, actually have very traditional and meaningful roots. For example: as many of you would know, "Santa Claus", was derived from the person Saint Nicolas, and part of the tradition of gift giving came from his acts of charity to the poor, and goodwill to all. He has been converted into an overweight, red-coated, commercial character, whose intentions, though they have good origins, are somewhat questionable in the modern world. Or the 'Christmas Colours' and decoration of the Christmas tree. Origins of this are very varied, from Luther, to other Christian historical figures. I found one such explanation that I found satisfactory, that of the 'Paradise Tree', part of the 'Paradise play'. The play was designed to represent the Garden of Eden, and, since apple trees (The tree of Good and Evil) were not available, the people of the 1300s used pine trees with apples hung on them. Even then, it was adopted by the private residences of many people, and became a Christmas tradition. Even good ol' Xmas, which is widely accepted as a commercial representation of Christmas, had good beginnings as a simple abbreviation. X (or Chi) is the twenty second letter of the Greek alphabet, and was commonly used to abbreviate "Christ". Indeed, Christmas has become too commercial.

Christmas is what we are and what we make it of it, not the commercial enterprise, not the church, not anyone or anything that foists the spirit on us to intrude upon our genuine self.

What brings on the fuzzy-wuzzy, schmaltzy feelings of soft humanity beneath the holly and mistletoe: the innocuous candles, inexpensive wine, the log cabin warmed by the dying ember in the fireplace, and lots of love and memories moved by the nostalgic strains of the timeless carols and hymns familiar.

Flanders summed it all up. It's all about family gathering. It's that one time of year when we all feel right, just right, gift wrapped in the glow of simple faith, hope and charity. Bah, Humbug! begone.