My biggest complaint against modern American Christmas is that it has very little to do with anything spiritual at all.
There is very much money spent and clamoring to get the new Xbox, but how many Americans truly focus on Christ, spirituality, religion, or God during the holiday season?
Increasingly, we see less and less of this and more and more of the glitzy decorations and material gifts.
I get that these things are nice and I am not trying to dull anyone’s holiday cheer, but they should not be the focus of Christmas or the holidays.
There is nothing wrong with these things in, and of, themselves, but something has gone horribly wrong when they steal the plot to become the main thing.
Religion, doing good things for others, truly meaningful things that could potentially change lives, and not engaging in even more materialism should be the focal points of Christmas.
We as Americans have more than we need when it comes to nice material things—even in Joe Biden’s awful economy.
But when was the last time there was a religious revival on Christmas or the divorced couple got back together on Christmas? When was the last time we heard a story about the…
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