Christmas Resistance
[It's not my intention to slight or promote Christmas celebrations] Every year as the Christmas season approaches I get the strangest, uneasy feeling that "I just don't want to participate!" I seem to instinctively know that there's something wrong. Something is just not right with the way America is celebrating this holy holiday; or maybe it's that I want to feel that it's an optional thing, with no shame attached for not indulging in material consumption, overindulgence and frenzy—and I don't. I certainly don't have anything against Christmas, love the man they call Christ as much as anyone, I enjoy the lights as I walk though my neighborhood at night, look forward to the stock market's Santa Clause rally, but is this really the way He would have wanted us to remember his birthday? While doing some research to back-up my suspicions I came across this by the Christmas Resistance Movement , "You know holiday shopping is offensive a