Christmas has arrived. The streets are lit up, Christmas decorations flood us everywhere and the inevitable purchases for these dates skyrocket, to the great pleasure of traders and regret of our accounts currents.
In recent years it is customary … criticism and even anger appear on social networks attacks at Christmas. I believe that this attitude towards Christmas is largely explained by the ambient cynicism of our time, which makes it more and more difficult for us to celebrate the beautiful, the true and the good in public.
In the image, Eduardo Baura
The most criticized aspects of Christmas are the excesses, even the kitsch, which sometimes accompany these dates. They will be with me that, at least in this, reason is not lacking –let’s take as an example these very impersonal WhatsApp messages, sent a thousand times on Christmas Eve–.
However, in reality, consumerism and kitsch are not intrinsic qualities of Christmas, but rather undesirable attributes that have been added to this celebration precisely to the extent that the true meaning has been lost sight of of this feast, that is to say that God was born and that he did it to save us.
And the fact is that, even if the traditional “Merry Christmas” has been relegated by politicians “happy holidays” correct and misleadingor perhaps precisely because of this, it is necessary to emphasize something which, until recently, was insultingly obvious: Christmas is a Christian holiday.
However, this statement should not be understood in an exclusive sense. Christmas, Besides its religious significance, It has other elements that make it a festival of great beauty for everyone. Even for families Very far from Christian beliefs, Christmas serves as an excuse to, even once a year, get together around a table and party. this institution as natural as it is unrepeatable which is family, where we are all accepted and loved as we are. For that alone, Christmas is worth it. And if it didn’t exist, we would have to invent it.
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