Christmas is a special time of year that deserves to be remembered for its true meaning. Every year Christmas becomes more and more commercialized and society forgets the origin of Christmas. It didn't start with cookies, toys, and a fat man delivering them, but instead started with a humble inn where our Savior was born. The definition of Christmas is “a holiday on December 25th celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ.” Nowhere in that definition does it say anything about the outrageous pressure society has placed on consumers to buy, buy, buy during the holiday season. Christmas is about presence, not gifts. Christmas was a time when families came together and love encompassed every member. Meals and stories were shared and times were simpler. Christmas Eve and Christmas Day Mass were special times when families could sit in a pew and remember the true meaning of Christmas while carols were sung in high choirs. This serenity and peace seems to be a thing of the past. Now, people are drowning in the belief that Christmas is all about presents and that unwrapping presents on Christmas morning is what this joyous occasion is all about. Another misconception is that Christmas should be bought and given for enjoyment. In 2010, an astonishing “4.8 million people [made] time on Christmas Day to go online and shop.” In contrast, only “4.5 million people who attend an Anglican, Catholic, Methodist, Baptist or Pentecostal church” were in church on Christmas Day. The thought that shopping is more important than celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ is frightening to Christians everywhere. During Christmas people can still buy gifts for others to show appr...... middle of paper ... ...w American, 2008: 21-23.Kavanaugh, John F. "Putting Christ Back Into Chri $tmas." America, 2000: 13.Lehman, James. Empower parents. http://www.empoweringparents.com/I-Want-It-Now-How-to-Challenge-a-False-Sense-of-Entitlement-in-Kids.php (accessed July 12, 2013).McSpadden, Walker . "The Holiday Book". In The Book of Holidays, by Walker McSpadden, 180. Binghamton: Thomas.Crowell Company, 1958.Palin, Sarah. Good news and great joy. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2013. Spero, Rabbi Aryeh. "The war against Christmas continues." Human Events, 2005: 901. Spero, Rabbi Aryeh. "The left resumes the war on Christmas." Human Events, 2006: 20. Wallop, Harry. More people shop online than go to church on Christmas Day. 12 22, 2010. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/christmas/8219376/More-people-to-shop-online-than-go-to-church-on-Christmas-Day.html (accessed 12 10, 2013).