Ten Reasons Why I Don't Keep Christmas! - David Jon Hill - December 1979

David Jon Hill

Sour grapes? A bah-humbug Scrooge? Antiestablishment? Irreligious? No! None of these. Here's a plain speaking-out about a holiday nearly everybody keeps, religious or nonreligious, and nearly no one seems to really understand why! Read this personal-experience article for understanding. It's practical. Logical. Truthful. Biblical. All of these! Many years ago I stopped to ask myself: Why do I keep Christmas? More people are unhappy, miserable, depressed, deep in debt, and violent during that holiday season than any other time of the year. There's precious little peace on earth or goodwill among men. There doesn't seem to be much of Christ in the commercialized Christmas that begins to be advertised each year before the last Christmas is paid for! For that matter, in what little reading I had done in the Bible, I never had read anything about Christmas. Where did we get all of these customs anyway? - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library