Christmas And Life’s Meaning
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on December 27, 2008
Despite the vaunted sophistication and intellectual high-mindedness of the modern world, particularly of the West, it is still a festival with religious roots which has this enormous and irresistible force to pull us together.
Christmas is now largely a secular celebration, despite the plaintive cries for us to “remember the true meaning of Christmas” and to “put Christ back into Christmas”.
Christmas was celebrated behind the Iron Curtain and its influence has spread to non-Christian countries such as China and India. In post-Christian Europe, Christmas is a major celebration. Christmas is universal. It represents the most successful marketing triumph of the modern era. Atheists like my friends who run Caribbean Dialogues will get together with family and friends, find time to relax, cherish good times and talk about the global crisis of capitalism.
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