Is America losing its Christmas spirit while other countries embrace it?

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I've noticed that America is slowly doing away from major holidays like Christmas. The US doesn't really celebrate it like it once did. Other countries are all over it but here. Any thoughts on Christmas?

katiesmuff · Accepted Answer

I think the vast majority still has the spirit, however I also believe the vast majority of us are fed up with the commercialism of it. That is the part that seems long gone. I unfortunately don't remember it any other way than stores beginning putting out Christmas stuff in early Oct and by the time the actual season gets here we are already tired of the stuff, family excursions to cities, malls etc after Thanksgiving to begin their Christmas shopping which has now switched to shop the computer and never leave home. I'm told by my parents and older brothers and sisters how they use to travel to nearby locations where beautiful Christmas displays and other activities were happening and having a great time shopping as well.

In short I believe the entire world has gotten to fast for our own good. Friends are not friends like it once was, some just never give work a break with some and many have just become greedy and very selfish with everything in life.

I feel so fortunate to belong to large family where my parents insist we all spend between Christmas and New Year at their home. My father tells us how he worked his ass off for many years to have the home they have and he did it so that when times like Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, Independence Day come around we could all gather together and enjoy each other's time together. I have 3 brothers 2 sisters, we have 17 children between the 6 of us and there is 7 grandchildren so for my parents it's 6 kids, 17 grandchildren, and 7 great grandchildren. At Thanksgiving I sometimes chuckle it looks as though I am in my restaurants kitchen when helping with that dinner.

If only the entire world was like this and everybody not so bidder and greedy! It's a dream I doubt will ever come true however.

sage2021 · Accepted Answer

I remember the Christmas of 2024! Trump has just won the election to become America's next president and would be sworn in not long after Christmas! 🎄

There was absolute joy everywhere that Christmas in 2024

People were so happy that Biden and his bull💩 was not going to run America 🇺🇸 any further into the ground then he already had.

Christmas of 2026, well, America 🇺🇸 is still in a mess that was left over from the Biden administration. America is divided and the Democrats are still acting like a bunch of lunatic's!!

A lot of people eople have lost their religious beliefs and aren't going to church or being spiritual like they once were

JESUS IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON!! ✝️

But a lot of people are just going around sinning and don't even give it a second thought anymore. People have changed and a lot of them are just out for themselves. It's very sad to me and I am positive that God is sad about it as well.

Christmas isn't all about shopping 🛒 and buying gifts 🎁 for everyone. And the way I see it, it's so commercialized that they are totally missing that it's supposed to be the birthday celebration of Jesus Christ our Savior.

So, someone said that they saw Christmas everywhere last Christmas. Like where? On Amazon? 😔

OneViewpoint · Answer

What are you talking about? Christmas is the pinnacle of US culture. The Christmas season is worshipped by Corporations and welcomed by consumers like sex with a porn star. It's where retailers make 50% of their profits for the year. It's where ordinary people rack up credit card debt like drunken sailors on shore leave in a brothel. The banks LOVE Christmas. Christmas means you "have to" buy things for people who don't need or want them or else you don't love them or you're a shitty friend. Landfill operators love Christmas. Christmas means you over eat and drink your self into oblivion for 30+ days then go to the gym for 4-6 weeks starting January 2nd. The fitness industry loves Christmas. Homeowners adorn their houses with tacky decorations for 60 - 90 days then have to take them down and put them away sometime in April. Oh Christmas is wonderful. Thank you White Baby Jesus.

jennifer_bloom · Answer

I had a professor in my school who had done hugely heroic things for others, and won awards for it, but he did not like emotionalism or flamboyant virtue, he says its cheap and lustre baiting, to be charitable on Christmas eve, and then ignore the poor the other times of the year. I would assume he is the type of person who does not donate in December, only in April or May when nobody is celebrating a religious holiday or giving money to charity.

Holidays are good, but you can be devoted to God without investing money and time into Mistletoe decorations or gingerbread cake. All it takes is an hour of volunteer work at the food bank, while your friends are playing board games at the coffee shop and ignoring those who are hungry.

CupcakeTheDestroyer · Answer

So it’s a christian holiday that has rapidly become secular due to the intense relationship of that particular holiday and the capitalistic boom of the “christmas season.” This creates an association of advertisements, money, and all things shallow with the holiday. At the same time, christians are learning that many church communities are not to be trusted as they blindly follow the word of their pastors rather than contemplating the words of Jesus and how that applies to their life, or worse blindly following politicians who are christian in name only. They have separated themselves from those communities and no longer trust in the institution of the church. We’re long overdue for a reformation of the church, especially now that christianity has become synonymous with vocal, open hatred of marginalized groups. But that hasn’t happened yet, and frankly? Christmas could use some toning down.

strawberryapple · Answer

I noticed that Christmas is bigger than ever in America.

ohsheeT · Answer

Well we have nine months to get it together make a plan today and see it through. Make it about your family your friends and what you want and what you want your family to experience. If you don't do it it might not happen

WindAtMyBack · Answer

The Christmas spirit was lost long ago. It became politically incorrect to have public nativity scenes. Christmas used to be a magic time. People who didn't live through it can't imagine how magical it was, and how peaceful it was.

exitseven · Answer

I think that online shopping has done a lot to change Christmas. Everything seems really transactional today.

Unycorn · Answer

It is too commercial. Celebrating is not the focus, the gifts and lights on the roof are. It is a social value that the society loses. Not only an an American thing.

permanentem · Answer

Yet Bible sales are growing rapidly. In 2024 bible sales in America increased by 11%. In 2025 bible sales in America increased by 12%. Christianity in America is growing rapidly.

Anonymous · Answer

Certainly as the USA is declining as a "white majority, white Christian demographic majority" - no racism, just facts only - apparently Wikipedia and other Google AI results claim "America will be a white minority in a decade or less" 📉📈 trends

strateguy632 · Answer

Well now! Everyone took down decorations. it is spring!

NathanDavis · Answer

what spirit? lol...

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