The rush to buy for Christmas seems almost obscene. Get all this expensive food /drink/gifts /things for 'the perfect Christmas' we're told. There are also the piles of requests to buy from or contribute to all the Charities I have ever supported. I can't blame them as this is the way these days, it seems, to raise money, but I do hate having to throw them all into the paper recycling bag. The ones with presents in them seem quite manipulative as I contemplate a Biro, Christmas stamps or even a Card.
In a recent God's Politics Blog, Jim Wallis wrote
'I wrote in my most recent book, Rediscovering Values, about our need to replace the maxim of "greed is good" with the value of "enough is enough." This is a challenge because the advertisements we see telling us to consume are often fundamentally at odds with the teachings of Jesus. The relentless pressure of advertising tells us that "there is never enough," and that you should "worry" constantly about what you eat and drink, what you wear, whether your future is secure, and more. But Jesus says the exact opposite. They say, "Worry all the time!" But Christ says, "Don't worry!"'
If you take Christ out of Christmas you are left with M & S!
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