The Christmas Market, Father Christmas, Christmas Lights and joyful expectation...
Yeah - but watch out for the "Reverend Fr.s" Scrooge and "Bishops" Cromwell amongst us... those who despise Christmas traditions and preach to their flocks, "Christmas can wait!" "There is no Santa!" "Don't celebrate or decorate before Christmas Eve!" Yet Christmas prep goes on without them. No presents for you!
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In Europe, there have been pre-Christmas Christmas Markets ever since Medieval times. Holiday merchants selling treats and finery in preparation for the celebration of the birth of Christ. The markets were festive and joyous. And yet modern Puritans decry pre-Christmas traditions as the commercialization of Christmas, deriding it as a wicked, modern innovation, bent on throwing Christ out of Christmas. Ah! Such Protestants! History reminds us that medieval churchmen themselves once sold positions of honor and even special liturgical privileges and celebrations to the highest bidder; and yet their descendants would deprive simple elder folks of a little bit of joy for themselves and their poor crippled children during the holiday season. Tiny-Tim still suffers!
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Photo: Dresden Christmas Market
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Please boycott anti-pre-Christmas sites and Scrooges with this symbol on their blogs.
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