Every year, Dec 25th is celebrated to mark the birth of Jesus Christ (now dont ask me if I believe that is the real date of birth of JC based on the geography and description of the scene of nativity). Christmas is celebrated with great pomp and show across the world, but especially in traditionally Christian Europe and North America, when their blatant consumerism spins out of control. Sample this: 1. More than 100 million Christmas trees chopped down every year in NA, EUR and Oz/NZ alone. Every. Single. Year. 2. Christmas shopping outpaces shopping across all other quarters combined. Moreover, with the increasingly aggressive push from internet giants like Amazon, the Thanksgiving shopping season and Christmas have been crushed together. Rampant materialism is overtaking the west. 3. Religious minorities in the west feel threatened and offended by the traditional Merry Christmas greeting, especially Jews, who observe their own festival Hanukkah at the same time. The politically correct greeting is Happy holidays. 4. Christmas dinners also lead to terrible wastage: turkeys and chicken by the ton, injected with poisonous growth hormones and fattened beyond recognition being fed to nations already battling obesity, and then this food being wasted to the order of millions of tons. Therefore, we appeal to all genuinely secular people: A. Greet each other with Happy Holidays! and not the other thing B. Shun those trees: they can lead a longer life that way, and give us more oxygen. C. This holiday season, shun shopping and be with the poor. Without talking about you-know-who: its offensive to talk about you-know-who to minorities D. Shun non-vegetarian food and show how much you care for the environment.
Posted on: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 10:05:38 +0000
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