Christmas VS Commercialism
Secular society is especially adept at making Christmas into something that it is not. From a non-Christian perspective, the “holiday season” is not about Christ at all. It’s about commercialism. It’s about shopping, gifts, traditions, food, and seasonal music. It’s about a jolly, overweight, bearded man from the north pole who dons faux red fur and sets off, with a big bag of toys, into the cold December night, seated in a flying sleigh pulled by magic caribou. But for us, as believers, Christmas is something infinitely more wonderful than any store discount or fairy tale. Christmas is the celebration of something priceless, something historical, something miraculous, something salvific. It is the day when we remember the birth of our Savior — the fact that the eternal second Member of the Trinity took on flesh and dwelt among us. This is the season when we remember that the Son of God became a man — which is why He is called Immanuel, which means “God with Us.” As Isaiah prophes