The Retail Agenda to Un-CHRIST Christmas

It's that time of year again.  The period of redeeming your soul after filling it as a glutton during Thanksgiving.  For some, it's the time of year to celebrate the birth of Jesus.  For most, it's time to go into debt to buy the love of the people around you.  For retail stores, it's time to exploit your faith in Christ to suck every last dime out of you.  Some argue that the stores are doing us a favor by discounting products at that period so that we can indulge on things we want that we can't normally afford.  Truth is, these same stores screw you the other 11 months of the year to give you the perception that your saving during december.  Do you think that in this day and age stores are gonna cut back on profit to do you a favor in the name of your lord?  Each year it gets worse.  Easter is not far behind.  We throw a scapegoat on both holidays to take the fall in both holidays.  A freaking rabbit and a fat bastard in a cheeky suit take the fall to get the kids excited about the event.  Nobody want's to have to explain to their kids why we actually celebrate easter.  Who invented these damn things?  Christians?  What's next?  The clearance sale to celebrate Jesus graduating to the first grade?  The same people who preach that "Jesus is the reason for the season" are the same ones who pluck a poor tree who was minding his own business out of the ground, dress it like a psychedelic drag queen, and put presents under it.  Some people say that they are able to celebrate this because of their faith in the reason.  They go to church dressed in their sunday best, which nowadays has evolved into a pair of jeans and a t-shirt, sing a few songs, eat a bread wafer, drink a little wine, go home and still act like the same assholes they are aside from the hour they spent in church.  The message is lost.  Jesus didn't want you to celebrate his big day by buying Jr. a train set or little Suzie a Barbie with the Malibu dream home.  He wanted you to honor what he stood for and what he brought into this world.  We need to stop referring to the day after Thanksgiving as Black Friday.  Black friday should be reserved for the day Jesus was crucified.  The day after Thanksgiving and as of late, Thanksgiving night should be re-named corporate greed day.  However you celebrate this time of year, keep in mind why you do it.  The world will be a better place when we put our Lord in control and take control out of the hands of our currency.  In the meantime chill out and drink a big ass cup of egg nog for me.  We all know that's what the 3 wise men got wasted on when they made the trek back home.