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User ID: 81936595 United States 11/24/2022 07:39 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | These popular songs are based on the culture and social expectations surrounding the holiday season. The hymns and carols of Christmas are decidedly full of joy, peace, and hope because they are based on the original story. "For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light." |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 84715976 Canada 11/24/2022 08:39 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If you listen to the words of popular Christmas songs, there's a strong undercurrent of misery in the majority of them. I don't get why people like them so much really. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 83615402 I don't know if everybody experiences this... but evidently you do Op. I would say it's because you're not a Christian... Or you are in name only. So you see Christmas and the Caroles from the outside looking in. "God, if I'm not Your child, then please make me into one". "Jesus, the Christian Jesus... I don't really believe in You, or in Your deity. But if I'm incorrect, then I'm sorry. Please show me Who You Are... and how You should fit into my life". |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 83615402 Singapore 11/24/2022 08:46 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I mean songs like "John Lennon - So this is Christmas/Happy Xmas", "Greg Lake - I believe in Father Christmas", "Wham! - Last Christmas", these are the ones off the top of my head. On second thoughts, maybe it's mainly the British songs that are depressing. |
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User ID: 28000624 United States 11/24/2022 09:11 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | White Christmas is very sad Irving Berlin wrote it after his infant son died of SIDS on Christmas day I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day- from poem written by Henry W. Longfellow whose wife was fatally burned and son severely injured in Civil War Last Edited by Dodger007 on 11/24/2022 09:13 AM You can count on America to do the right thing after exhausting every other alternative." Winston Churchill |
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User ID: 83939981 United States 11/24/2022 09:11 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Because it's hooey, complicit corruption by religion to brainwash for control and endorphins. Commerce and corporations decided it was an excellent wave to surf every year for profit. Sucking up to Saturnalia is not without consequences. Nothing shall be so certain as to permit confusion. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 80469772 United Kingdom 11/24/2022 09:20 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Because it's hooey, complicit corruption by religion to brainwash for control and endorphins. Quoting: Lost Pottawatomi Commerce and corporations decided it was an excellent wave to surf every year for profit. Sucking up to Saturnalia is not without consequences. Cooked up by religion? More like to dent the king. Birth of jesus was replaced with Santa claus. We warned to not love the things of this world and then they invent santa to bring you 'the things of this world' - cane work out if santa being an anagram of satan is coincidence of course. The resurrection of the king jesus christ is replaced with a magical bunny who brings you eggs. All saints day is turned into halloween and worshipping demons. Theyve completely inverted it and in one sick move, if you believe in jesus that like believing in the magical easter bunny. It's an attack on the truth, an inversion. |
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