Christmas can be explained as a time of gathering, a time for family to get together and share time and love. This is what the values of Christmas were; now things are not the same. It is becoming more about who gets what and how much stuff a person gets. The Christmas holiday has been contaminated with advertising commercials and sales that stores put on; it is as if they have taken away Christmas all together and just made it a huge selling point. But there are still some hopes for a conventional Christmas, according to Crittenden, “This year is no different, despite the grinchy economic pall that has fallen over retailers.
Every year my family can receive a lot of Zongzi and moon cakes as gifts. Usually we cannot finish so have to throwing them all away. Most of the people do not know the real meaning of every festival and just think it as holidays
"The History of Christmas" is the story of the origin of Santa Claus and his impact on the world today. St. Nicholas was a wealthy Christian priest and later bishop, who traveled the country helping people, giving gifts of money and other presents. His gifts were given late at night, so that the gift giver's identity would remain a secret. The Civil War cartoonist Thomas Nast drew Santa Claus for Harper's Weekly in 1862, and his drawing was used in the first Santa ads for the Coca-Cola Company's Christmas advertising in the 1920s. However, as the years progressed, the Santa advertisement had numerous images by many different artists, including Clement C. Moore's traditional St. Nicholas.
The view that secularisation has been a feature of only Modern European societies are arguable as there are many different types and definitions of religion, and also it does not take into account secularisation on a more global scale. The British Social Attitudes Survey in 1991 showed that while many people claim to believe in god, very few attended church in the UK. According to Bruce, the high point for British church attendance was between 1860 and 1910, when around 28% of the adult population were members. This figure shows that the apparent church attendance from these years was low, suggesting that secularisation was already taking place. However, it has already been identified that many people are still religious, they may just not have the time or level of commitment to attend churches or holy places to pray or worship.
Jesus is often named as the ‘Reason for the Season’ (which infers that it is because of him that we celebrate Christmas) but he is also the reason and main catalyst in the essays, “Salvation” by Langston Hughes and “Sister Monroe” by Maya Angelou and in “Jesus Camp”, a documentary by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady. There are other similarities, to be sure, but the overall focus of all three pieces is Jesus and salvation from sin. Langston Hughes’ “Salvation” was written from a child’s point of view. Hughes wrote the piece when he was thirty-eight years old which was published as part of his memoirs. Hughes was a twelve-year-old boy from Missouri waiting to be saved in his Auntie Reed’s church.
Today many of the religions believe that life begins with when the sperm and the egg meet. But it wasn’t always like that; the Catholic Church believed that life started 40 days after conception. However, they couldn’t back this information because the bible has not clearly stated when “the spark of life” actually is. There are new findings showing that conception doesn’t necessarily mean that the woman is going to be producing a baby. Right after conception there is something called a zygote that is formed.
“Have you seen the devil…Such a Christian that will not come to church but once a month…He plow on Sunday sir…Do you read the gospel, Mr. Proctor” (90)? Religion is woven into the everyday life of the Salem of the play; it is exclusive form of Christianity centered on a set of clearly defined rules: “you went to church every Sunday”, “you did not work on the Sabbath”, “you believed the Gospel”, “you respected the minister’s word like it was God’s”, and so on. For people accused of witchcraft, any deviation from these rules in the past can be used as evidence for much greater sins in the present; but ultimately, even good and respected and highly religious women like Mr. Proctor are accused and put to death, and because the majority of people believed these lies against him Proctor was accused. “John, you cannot say such a-“ (110). Proctor calls Abigail a whore, and is immediately shut down by everyone.
People who are non-believers or atheist believe that Christianity is being pushed down their throats and they ask why they have to be subjected to having to see a Nativity scene at Christmas if they do not believe. A well known comedian and atheist Penn Jillette, was on the Glenn Beck show discussing how any type of religious symbol should be banned from public property, because showing those symbols are offensive. However, it is unheard of for a Christian to complain about a Non-Believer or Atheist celebrating Christmas or any other religious holiday. How can a person with no beliefs at all celebrate a holiday based on the birth of Jesus, and then get mad because they have other Christian symbols put in front of their face. It is the same with Easter.
The name of the consulted Indian tribe were called the Winnebago Indians. Most of the Indians became Puritans due to the massive population out burst coming from Europe converting them. The first Thanksgiving usually was depicted with Pocahontas being there, but that is false. Pocahontas had died a couple years before the first Thanksgiving. But in 1623, William Bradford (governor) decided to make it a holiday after his name.
Also, he told to the readers that Santa has two homes in the United States, one is in Torrington, Connecticut, where Santa and his helpers give out presents. The other home is in Wilmington, New York, where a village for Santa and his reindeer is located. Moreover, for religious people this holiday means the birth of Jesus. For example, in the video “Christmas Becomes a Holiday” an author talked about that scientists assumed that 2000 years ago precisely in December 25th Jesus