Cultural Clash or Integration?
Hmm it is certainly a struggle that Christmas seems to embody - is it a Christian feast or a Winter festival of spend and abundance to fight the darkness of this season? Perhaps it is both as it has been for a long time. Very early cultures had winter feasts of abundance to celebrate light to bide them over the dark season. Christianity adapted these feasts to help in their conversion mission and the fact that it makes sense to the message, the marking of the birth of hope/light overcoming the darkness, something worth celebrating for.
Cultural Clash or Integration?
Hmm it is certainly a struggle that Christmas seems to embody - is it a Christian feast or a Winter festival of spend and abundance to fight the darkness of this season? Perhaps it is both as it has been for a long time. Very early cultures had winter feasts of abundance to celebrate light to bide them over the dark season. Christianity adapted these feasts to help in their conversion mission and the fact that it makes sense to the message, the marking of the birth of hope/light overcoming the darkness, something worth celebrating for.