Christmas -religion or superstition or life

Men, who have to work put off the buying until the very last minute,  because it is to much to bare.  Women press hard into the hard details of what color,  what size, and how can I streetch the budget to include everyone. 

 It is an ordeal, but the merchants look forward to this time of year,  because their sales and profits are geared around the month of December.  What a turn off for those who want to be spiritual.  The commercialism and materialism of it all.  Something must be wrong.  So the spirtually inclined; they start to dig.

Soon, they discover that the whole idea of Christmas,  and Dec.25,  as the birth day of Jesus is a fabrication,  and had nothing to do with His birthday,  but rather the date was invented to co-inside with the winter equinox or when the sun reaches it southerly most point in the sky. 

They make the connection, that the birth of Jesus,  was actually taken from a pagan tradition concerning th sun god, and the lunar Egyptian calnedar.  They find that the Christmas tree had nothing to do with Jesus,  but came from an Babylonian tradition that stemmed from Nimrod, and the yule log ment child,  and refered to the son of Nimrod or Ninus, not Jesus at all.

Christmas, they see was Christianized from Peganism, and all this freezy during the month of December is a world confused. So, they bail out and refuse to get involved in the “madness.  They figure, “ let the fools blow their money on each other and live in the darkness, but as for me I will  live in the light.  I will be spiritual.”

 Others don’t  go as far and decide to go to the mission and help feed the poor or travel to other countries, and spend their holiday ministering to the needy,  because they have to break out  somehow, from the chaos and madness of the holiday.  Nothing wrong with that.

So, how do you prepare for December?  For me, I have seen the superficiality of the holiday, and I know the pagan tradition that has attached itself to the birth of Jesus. 

 But “the essence”  of the yearly break  in time ( the holidays) is what is important,  joy and peace and love.  These are they weigthier issues of God.   

 So, for me,  I love this time of year, and have come to understand that God is not so technical that He calls us on the carpet with anger bercause of  our ignorance,  neither is it wrong to share love in the physical expression of gifts, whether it is or is not the exact time for the birth of Christ into this darkened world.  

So for those that know the history and tradition and assume it is a compromise of spirituality and faith,  because you have made the trek into the true history,  and  know of the paganism attached to the aledged birth of Christ, be set free from the superstitious fears.