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There Is No Christ In Christmas
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This one's for all the Grinches out there!


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There is no Christ in Christmas,
they’ve replaced Him with an “X”
that marks the places you can find
the bargains at their best!

Don’t drive the roads ‘round X-mas—
drivers are full of hate!
And they’ll prove it if you drive too slow
and make them seconds late!

Be careful where you try to park,
there is no courtesy.
Their anger is so quick to spark
they’ll show you no mercy.

Avoid the stores at X-mas time—
I’m telling you it’s right,
to do your shopping earlier
and thus avoid the fight!

But if you need that special gift,
prepare to stand in line
and put up with the irate,
and the cranky ones who whine.

There is no love at X-mas,
unless it’s for a sale,
but the product will be all sold out
and your patience will fail.

There’s tons of greed at X-mas,
it’s the worst time of the year,
when fights break out and tempers flair,
to me it’s very clear...

that if this poem’s about you,
please stop and think awhile
of how much better it would be
to replace anger with a smile.

Yes, there’s no longer Christ in X-mas,
and it’s a dreadful thing I fear—
what if God re-sent His Son
to us THIS time of year?

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Reviewed by Jim Dunlap
Reviewed on February 3, 2004
Christmas is my favorite holiday, even though everything you say is basically true, and yes, the letter X is about as old as Christmas. It has been used for most of modern history at any rate since it does stand for Christ just as the fish stands for Christian.

Reviewed by Divinity 11 (Reader)
Reviewed on December 31, 2003
exactly what needs to be heard...........maybe george w. bush should read this one........

unfortunately it's not just christmas that it's like this
jess
aka
gypsie

Reviewed by john zimmerman
Reviewed on December 21, 2003
I suppose the scholarly quibble the the "X" in X-mas is the
Greek letter "chi" the first letter in the word Christ
doesn't help much - - -

OTH, Much of Christmas is humbug

Still, i believe

john+

Reviewed by Ch'erie de Perrot
Reviewed on December 20, 2003
Yes Quite!
I not a grinch, but Christmas or xmas, is just a money making racket.
If we really want to honour Gods son, we help out someone in need, that way we are offering Jesus a gift, which is who we should be offering too, Not ourselves.
Top write but
Ch'erie

Reviewed by Lady Peg (Reader)
Reviewed on December 20, 2003
Very well done.

Reviewed on December 19, 2003
powerful, needed write--then they wonder why people are BAH, HUMBUG!ing this time of year

(((HUGS))) and love,

karla. :(

Reviewed by Anna Marie Fritz (Reader)
Reviewed on December 19, 2003
I have to agree with Rage on this one. There never was any
Christ in Christmas, but for the spelling. It was a pagan
celebration in honor of a false god named Nimrod...who was
angry, greedy, materialistic, selfish...your typical me-first
personality. No wonder the depression rate is so high this
time of year!

Reviewed on December 19, 2003
i am a grinch; and it is because Christ HAS been "x"ed out. then people wonder why i am so down this time of year. go figure...a strong, much needed write; thank you for sharing, e! :( (((HUGS))) and love, "the grinch" in tx. :(


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