| Lisnaholic |
12-08-2016 09:31 AM |
As a celebration of religion, gluttony and materialism, I'm pretty indifferent to Christmas, but then I remember that lots of people, especially children and grandparents, get a lot of innocent pleasure out of it, so I guess that's nice.
Also, a time of goodwill in any form should be encouraged. Most of us have heard about this event, and that alone is almost enough to justify every Christmas before or since imo:-
Quote:
http://www.catholicireland.net/wp-co...14-truce-2.jpg
The Christmas truce (German: Weihnachtsfrieden; French: Trêve de Noël) was a series of widespread but unofficial ceasefires along the Western Front of World War I around Christmas 1914. In the week leading up to the holiday, French, German and British soldiers crossed trenches to exchange seasonal greetings and talk. In areas, men from both sides ventured into no man's land on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day to mingle and exchange food and souvenirs. There were joint burial ceremonies and prisoner swaps, while several meetings ended in carol-singing. Men played games of football with one another, giving one of the most memorable images of the truce. Peaceful behaviour was not ubiquitous; fighting continued in some sectors, while in others the sides settled on little more than arrangements to recover bodies.
The following year, a few units arranged ceasefires but the truces were not nearly as widespread as in 1914; this was, in part, due to strongly worded orders from the high commands of both sides prohibiting fraternization.
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I'm with Trollheart; to me the idea that Christmas trees or the word Christmas itself should be censored out of some notion of political correctness is ridiculous. If Christians across the world want to celebrate the lowly birth of a Palestinian Jew with delusions of grandeur I don't see why they shouldn't. |
