Is Christmas Too Commercialized?

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Jamal Jordan
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Is Christmas Too Commercialized?

Over the years, one topic which has sparked an interesting debate among intellectuals, business men and Christians is whether or not Christmas has enrolled into an over commercialized holiday.  The period at the climax of the year, December 25th, which we celebrate as Christmas is the time when consumers increase their spending to an outrageous level and business persons become elated as their shelves become depleted of the products that assist in our celebrations.  

The Oxford Study Dictionary describes the term commercialize as ‘to make commercial or to alter in order to make profitable’.  In light of this definition, I certainly believe that it has become too commercialized and has strayed and deviated far from the Christian holiday used to celebrate the birth of our Christ and Saviour, Jesus.

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Those of us, who believe in Jesus, decide to set a date aside I honour and commemoration of his birth and the blessings he came to offer us.  In more recent years, however, we have decided to show appreciation to others for the goodness they have extended towards us during the year by purchasing gifts.   Those gifts, which we offer as tokens are representative of the gifts, were brought be the Three Wise Men for Jesus on his day of birth.

Commercialization, however, escalates because the fruits of our own labour do not make many of the ...

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