'Tis the Season...
Deck the halls with bouts of Folly
Fa ra ra ra ra, ra ra ra ra
Tis the season to be shopping
Fa ra ra ra ra, ra ra ra ra
Don we now our gay-yet-Right-Wing-ultraconservative-and-in-no-way-advocating-pro-same-sex-sexual-preferences-in-fear-of-retribution-from-our-current-government's-administration apparel
Fa ra ra, ra ra ra, ra ra ra
Make the president Bush go sterile
Fa ra ra ra, ra ra ra ra.
Well, it's that time of the year again, when countless millions of people stuff their fat ass in to their 15mpg $40,000 SUV's and drive 0.5 miles to the mall, fighting countless other fat-assed people in their SUV's to buy gifts for important people in their lives. And it's important that everyone do it all at the same time, preferably during the last 40 days of the year so that countless hours are spent sitting in traffic, wasting millions of gallons of gasoline and oil that our government is trying to acquire from the Middle East through military intimidation. Nevermind the fact that there are 365 days in the year, leaving 325 other available shopping days to buy gifts for people at the malls when it's not so crowded. And then we have to buy paper to wrap these gifts in for the sole purpose of having the gift's recipient tear the paper off and throw it away, thus indirectly contributing to our planet's deforestation and adding to its pollution. Maybe we're a little nicer to people whom we bump in to at the supermarket or in the shops, too. But then for the rest of the year we return to being our normal A-hole selves, looking out for number 1.
But maybe that's all besides the point.
It all goes back to the meaning of Christmas. What IS the meaning of Christmas? Today? You just read it. That is what Christmas means today. But there are a select few who are naive enough to think it's the celebration of the birth of Christ; in reality it's not. Ask anyone walking down the street what the first thing they think of when they think of Christmas. I guarantee you it's Santa Claus, it's Christmas trees, it's opening presents, it's roast beef dinner, etc. And I can also guarantee that the first thing people DO NOT think of is Jesus Christ when it should be.
But that's okay. Because this is exactly how Christ imagined people would be celebrating his birthday 2000 years after he died: by going to the mall and buying something, by being nice to our close circle of family and friends while alienating countless others in other countries as well as our own, by destroying our environment and the very planet that God gave us.
Well, Merry Christmas. Hope everyone gets that Lexus they wanted.
Fa ra ra ra ra, ra ra ra ra
Tis the season to be shopping
Fa ra ra ra ra, ra ra ra ra
Don we now our gay-yet-Right-Wing-ultraconservative-and-in-no-way-advocating-pro-same-sex-sexual-preferences-in-fear-of-retribution-from-our-current-government's-administration apparel
Fa ra ra, ra ra ra, ra ra ra
Make the president Bush go sterile
Fa ra ra ra, ra ra ra ra.
Well, it's that time of the year again, when countless millions of people stuff their fat ass in to their 15mpg $40,000 SUV's and drive 0.5 miles to the mall, fighting countless other fat-assed people in their SUV's to buy gifts for important people in their lives. And it's important that everyone do it all at the same time, preferably during the last 40 days of the year so that countless hours are spent sitting in traffic, wasting millions of gallons of gasoline and oil that our government is trying to acquire from the Middle East through military intimidation. Nevermind the fact that there are 365 days in the year, leaving 325 other available shopping days to buy gifts for people at the malls when it's not so crowded. And then we have to buy paper to wrap these gifts in for the sole purpose of having the gift's recipient tear the paper off and throw it away, thus indirectly contributing to our planet's deforestation and adding to its pollution. Maybe we're a little nicer to people whom we bump in to at the supermarket or in the shops, too. But then for the rest of the year we return to being our normal A-hole selves, looking out for number 1.
But maybe that's all besides the point.
It all goes back to the meaning of Christmas. What IS the meaning of Christmas? Today? You just read it. That is what Christmas means today. But there are a select few who are naive enough to think it's the celebration of the birth of Christ; in reality it's not. Ask anyone walking down the street what the first thing they think of when they think of Christmas. I guarantee you it's Santa Claus, it's Christmas trees, it's opening presents, it's roast beef dinner, etc. And I can also guarantee that the first thing people DO NOT think of is Jesus Christ when it should be.
But that's okay. Because this is exactly how Christ imagined people would be celebrating his birthday 2000 years after he died: by going to the mall and buying something, by being nice to our close circle of family and friends while alienating countless others in other countries as well as our own, by destroying our environment and the very planet that God gave us.
Well, Merry Christmas. Hope everyone gets that Lexus they wanted.
posted by V-Hume at 10:13 PM
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