Seriously? There are Christmas lights and nativity scenes all over the place. Christmas decreasing and Christmas trees. Fucking Mariah Carey.
These right wing propagandist pearl clutching concern ttrolls are a fucking scourge on Canadian society.
I get flashbacks from the war on Christmas. The battle for Baffin Bay on the march to the North Pole. That’s where we lost my friend Johnny. He was boiled in Hot Chocolate by Corporal Candy Cane’s army and he died for our right to say “Merry Christmas.”
Thank you for your service.
These days, my kids have no concept of a Christmas concert. If we are lucky, the school will put on a 30-minute “family sharing music show” on a Tuesday morning.
Maybe that has to do with schools being overburdened with larger class sizes, fewer staff, and tighter budgets due to governments cutting funding to the bone.
Maybe the article writer should to go volunteer for the school to save Christmas instead of crying about it and blaming everyone else.
Another classic from NatPo!
While we are ashamed of our cultural traditions, retailers are certainly not ashamed of milking cash from the desiccated corpse of Santa Claus. And so, by being cynical of a traditional Christmas, we have fashioned Christmas into something we should indeed feel cynical about.
NatPo came so close to making a progressive statement, but held back at the last second and blamed regular people instead.
Perhaps we can sneak it back onto the calendar
I wonder who doesn’t know when the stat holiday for Christmas is. No need to put it back on the calendar when it’s still there…
Throughout the whole article there are only anecdotal reasons why it should be restored. So many of them boil down to “it used to be like this so it should still be like this” too, which is just a silly argument. Maybe come up with some good reasons for it to stay by using a bit of critical thinking, NatPo.
The article could’ve been a nice little nostalgia trip too, but instead it finished off by saying all of the far-right talking points as though they had some relevance to the rest of the article.
It’s the National Post. What did you expect from such a rag?
NatPo had a great history, but a some point it sold out. Did it get bought by some Edmonton aristocrap? All it publishes now are op-eds from the aristo-crisy.
Of Postmedia’s 130+ ‘brands’ of Canadian news, NatPo is their flagship products. Postmedia is owned by an American hedge fund
These right wing propagandist pearl clutching concern ttrolls are a fucking scourge on Canadian society.
If judged by their own book then these right wing propagandist pearl clutching concern trolls are also a fucking scourge on Christian society.
Cafeteria Christians
Cafeteria Christians make conscious choices. These people believe what they’re instructed to believe. They’re what cafeteria Christians became.
It’s all predicted in detail right there in their book. But, I’m forgetting specifically which of the epistles communicated it nicely.
Christmas was long ago replaced with Santa’s Winter Festival. Very few people celebrate Advent and attend Mass on December 25.
I have to admit I haven’t bothered to read the article, but if all they’re doing is bemoaning that Winter Festival isn’t being called Christmas by some people, or that it IS but it isn’t the same festival they remember from some mythical past… then I haven’t missed anything.
All of it basically boils down to “Christmas used to be fun and have seasonal stuff and now it doesn’t”. Most of the genuinely decent sounding points they make about things they miss seem to be more attributed to a lack of social network in the area (ie no caroling, no groups of neighbours out around a fire, etc) or to a lack of time/money in the school system OR desired by the parents (ie less christmas concerts, etc).
They come VERY close, for NatPo, to commenting on the commercialization of christmas, but manage to swing it back around to being our fault (not the corps), so its still a blah, uninspiring article.
That just sounds like the author whining about not being a child anymore. Christmas isn’t something that happens for them now, it’s something they have to make happen for others, and man does that just kill the Christmas spirit! Wah wah wah!
Does the author explain what’s stopping them from organizing some carolling?
Ha, nope! That’d involve some introspection and realization that they’re partially responsible for the change in Christmas.
It’s only Christmas when someone else is doing the work!!1!~
I sure wish “right wing propagandists” would stop posting their trash rag every where.
Oh wait…
Jesus died for our
sinsright to wish him a happy birthday!!on a day that is contradictory to what the bible says was happening on the day he was born and suspiciously falls on the winter solstice with traditions suspiciously like the so called pagan holidays that fall then.
Gotta grow the herd somehow.
This year we have seen more houses with Christmas lights and they went up in November, so doesn’t seemed diminished.
ITS MERRY CHRISTMAS NOT HAPPY HOLIDAYS. LIKE AND SHARE IF YOU AGREE
ugh.
It was sometime around June, I was in China and I heard Christmas music. I followed the sound down the street and around the corner and there was a large stage setup with all kinds of consumer goods and electronics and there were people on stage singing and and making some sort of announcements. There was a huge Banner in Chinese and also in English. The banner read Consumption Festival! 🤣
My family celibate the secular commercial Christmas tradition.
