"And so this is Christmas, and what have we done?" We've done the usual. We've prepared to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ by engaging in extreme consumerism.
We've run up huge credit card debts to purchase the best gifts with which to impress our loved ones. And we've decorated our homes with gaudy lights and plastic reindeer. You know, just the way to honor the man who tried to teach us that the meek shall inherit the earth.
Ironically, isn't this kind of blatant materialism (in the name of religion) the very thing that Jesus was railing against when he lost his temper with the money changers in the temple?
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