Our Christmas Spirit

We are halfway through the month of December and if you are like me, you don't feel the Christmas Spirit at all, even though your Christmas Tree and outside decorations are up...

WHAT GIVES???

Has the Christmas Holiday lost its magic here in the good ole US of A?

Is there so much bullshit going on in the world that none of us feel like celebrating the holiday?

Have we lost our religious beliefs?

Many colleges and universities no longer call it the Christmas Holidays...  they call it something else, like Winter Break or something...  I am sure that grades K-12 don't refer to it as Christmas either.  So, in the minds of our students it is just a few days off from school and studies.

I remember when I was in college, all of our end of the semester exams took place when we got back from the holidays, so we had to take our books home and study, so it wasn't much of a holiday.

There are only 10 days left until Christmas Day...  and, for many of us, this means going to parties, getting shit-faced drunk, over-eating, displaying asinine behavior around our families, arguments at dinner, and opening presents...  for many of us, illegal drugs will also figure prominently into this holiday as well.

I think for many of us, we have shifted the focus away from religion for some reason.  I hesitate to try to label the problem because it varies with each person.  For me, I just don't believe the Bible or the sermons I heard in Church.  However, I do believe in a superior being and I believe that something or someone created the universe because something from nothing is just not possible or logical.

I remember being told by numerous ministers that Jesus said the following:  MY KINGDOM IS NOT OF THIS WORLD...  now, what exactly does that mean?   I see the word WORLD and think EARTH so his kingdom is not of earth.  So, where is it?  

• Does his kingdom exist in our solar system?
• Does his kingdom exist in our Milky Way Galaxy?
• Does his kingdom exist in another Galaxy?
• Does his kingdom exist in another Dimension?

Ministers will tell you his kingdom is in Heaven, but no one knows where Heaven is location.  Nor do they know exactly where Hell is located either?

For me that's a BIG PROBLEM...