Christmas is supposed to be a holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus by the Christian faith all around the world. It sure doesn’t seem that way anymore; thousands of people worldwide are exploiting the true meaning of Christmas, and the true meaning of a religious holiday.
As a Muslim-American, I personally feel disgusted by the thought of people commercializing or exploiting my religious Muslim holidays. The thought of people making fun out of a holiday with true meaning blows my mind. Living in Dearborn, you see many cases of people exploiting Christmas. Whether it is Muslims themselves, atheists, Jewish people, or any other person of a religious sect, it’s everywhere.
If you don’t belong to the Christian faith, why are you celebrating something that has nothing to do with your beliefs? This is the question I’d like to ask the many people around me “celebrating” Christmas. A person I’ve spoken to stated that Christmas is nothing but a materialistic holiday, regardless if it’s Christians or non-Christians celebrating it. That statement as a whole is just wrong. How is Christmas supposed to be a materialistic holiday by religious standards?
A religious holiday in general should never been disgraced by being downsized to materialistic just because thousands of people keep ruining its meaning. It’s wrong that non-Christians keep celebrating it. It’s deterring and ruining the true meaning of religious holidays as a whole. They’re being completely hypocritical.
Yes, though Christmas by religious standards shouldn’t be materialistic, people have sure made it that way by “normal” standards. People have turned Christmas into a huge commodity over the years, commercializing and exploiting a religious holiday. You never see non-Jews celebrating Hanukkah or non-Muslims celebrating Eid, do you?
A majority of non-Christians I’ve met always ostracize my religion and end up getting a ton of gifts on December 25, not realizing that the holiday is very sacred to some people, no matter how “materialistic” it has become. People need to get a grip on reality and start respecting the meaning of Christmas. Commercializing and exploiting it destroys the meaning out of anything that’s supposed to hold meaning.
Speaking as a Muslim, I believe that the meaning of Christmas coming from the Christian faith is a day that was chosen by the Church to celebrate the birth of Christ and that day was December 25. So in all simplicity, if you don’t believe in that statement, then you have no right to be celebrating something you hold no meaning to.