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Originally Posted by West Ender
I don't mind anyone buying Xmas presents months in advance. I don't even mind charities selling Xmas cards early. What I hate is going into a shop in September and being met with baubles, snowmen, tinsel and santas. It's ridiculous and has nothing to do with real Christmas, just money.  |
If Jesus Christ returned to Earth, him being the person whose birth the whole festival is supposed to be about, he would probably ask what 'baubles, snowmen, tinsel and santas' had to do with him in the first place, regardless of the month.
Explaining about Germanic Prince Albert popularising most Christmas traditions, probably wouldn't wash with Jesus.
As I said, I don't particularly like it, but targeting charity shops and their volunteers, and costing those charities money, and not being brave enough to put their names and faces to their 'campaign', is sadly pathetic.