“Christmas is the antitheses of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday.”
“This is not to say that Christmas is not a fun time; it is just to say that it is not in the same league as Thanksgiving.”
The numerous types of celebration of Christmas inspired an amazing feeling. In some of the Christmas Quotations by John Clayton it is made very clear.
“There is no biblical instruction to celebrate Christmas or to emphasize the birth of Christ. Because of the human origin of this holiday, it has become so materialized that things are the emphasis of everyone's thinking.”
One more of the Christmas Quotations by John Clayton reveals with no veil his disgust with the way in which man is taking materialistic advantage of the holy occasion. Here is also a direct indication to the rat race of different organizations to come into the light of fame.
“The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing so layers of guilt are imposed, and competition gets complicated as one Christmas program tries to outdo the other.”
“Lawsuits fly on everything from manger scenes on certain properties to whether schools can sing Christmas carols. In spite of our rhetoric most of us are relieved when the season is ove.”
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