Oh what a wondrous time of the year. Festivities of all kinds unfolding before ones eyes. I am sure it is easy to get caught up in the dazzle we call Christmas. I myself being an atheist still find some jolly in the holiday. I am sure my glutton for socks and under wear will not go unnoticed. On the other hand some thing seem to rub me the wronge way.
I see all these dazzling lights and cant help but think, I wish I could be there when this poor sap gets the electric bill for his award winning lights. There was this commercial on the other day, it was a man and his dog and they were walking at night in a festive area. The dog stops and begins barking at this mans lights. The man is oh so conveniently outside when the owner on the dogs explains that the dog doesn’t like when people flaunt there prosperity. The man who owns the house explains he got the lights on sale so the dog is wrong, but I couldn’t help but think maybe the dogs already got it figured out more then his “superiors”.
Beside all of the wasteful lights that are displayed there is one thing that bothers me more. The grand daddy of the whole event is the tree. The Christmas tree that sit in the living room for a month and slowly live out the remainder of its live sitting in a room dolled up like a Nevadan lady of the night. I guess most people don’t think of it that way because if I were to mention something like that at Christmas day at the family gathering id be exiled for life. I don’t mind people who cut down trees for paper, lumber, or fire wood, but for a decoration that only last a month. I think of it as a fur coat that can only be worn for a month. Throw all the nonsense out the window that this is a living organism that is being killed. The impact that Christmas has on the environment by destroys acres of pine trees. Trees that take carbon out of the air to make out air cleaner.
Christmas comes and goes and leave the world with a impact of a asteroid, scorched earth and all. It seems that alone the toll that this wretched holiday has on our home (planet earth), seems to dismiss any validity towards Christianity being the peaceful religion. Im sure some may argue well it good for economy, and sure they are write, but what use will this paper money be when all resources are already used up for this glutinous behavior.
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