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Would you ban Christmas

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if you could?

A deliberately controversial title Blush

How many people welcome Christmas with open arms, I wonder?

It's purportedly a Christian festival based upon a pagan one.

However, in the UK today (a secular society) and a lot of the West, the God being worshipped appears to be money.

When I was a child we were working class.

In those days (60s/70s) goods were far more expensive as the mass manufacturing we see today of cheap imported goods didn't happen.

Borrowing money from banks etc was far more difficult than it is today.

We didn't have much and didn't get much for Christmas.

Also, my mother became cyclically depressed every Christmas and because of all the arguments and misery during my childhood Christmases, I get depressed too.

There are other causes of the depression - bereavement, most of my life spent in deep anxiety about how I was going to pay for presents and spending time in mass gatherings I hated.

I went shopping today and the shops are mad, completely mad with people rushing around buying stuff that the recipients may not even want.

This is what Mind says:

https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/tips-for-everyday-living/christmas-and-mental-health/christmas-and-mental-health/

What do you think?

Does it cause more misery than happiness?

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  • I would certainly ban the over-commercialisation of Christmas, which I firmly believe is totally Christian festival and not a “pagan” one (so I dispute the dubious and historically misleading accounts of its being linked to paganism) - to me as a devout traditional Catholic, Christmas reveals to us the stubbornly ungovernability and stubbornly wilful disobedience of mankind, who needs to understand and accept that until we clearly reject the lies of Satan, that there will forever be conflict and discord in our world, so we must return to traditional Catholic moral values - these values can only be installed right from the start in childhood by parents who raise their children properly and are free to do so - we see how Catholic nations like Poland are trying to hold onto their Catholic Moral Values especially where it concerns their children and I am a huge supporter of these efforts - beyond a certain point, just like how other religions do, we have to use force to enforce the religious teachings and to protect and preserve our sacred traditions 

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  • I would certainly ban the over-commercialisation of Christmas, which I firmly believe is totally Christian festival and not a “pagan” one (so I dispute the dubious and historically misleading accounts of its being linked to paganism) - to me as a devout traditional Catholic, Christmas reveals to us the stubbornly ungovernability and stubbornly wilful disobedience of mankind, who needs to understand and accept that until we clearly reject the lies of Satan, that there will forever be conflict and discord in our world, so we must return to traditional Catholic moral values - these values can only be installed right from the start in childhood by parents who raise their children properly and are free to do so - we see how Catholic nations like Poland are trying to hold onto their Catholic Moral Values especially where it concerns their children and I am a huge supporter of these efforts - beyond a certain point, just like how other religions do, we have to use force to enforce the religious teachings and to protect and preserve our sacred traditions 

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