The commercialization of Christmas and its environmental results
George Koumoullis A century in the past in Cyprus, even 70-80 years in the past, Christmas was a purely non secular vacation. Most people lived in villages and it’s no exaggeration to say that actually everybody within the villages went to church at Christmas. And if some – then money on the fingers – rejected organized faith or non secular practices that they thought of superstitions, on that day, like Easter, they felt the duty to go to church. The Christmas sequence, the liturgy and the liturgy, began early within the morning, at 5 and never at 7.30 within the morning, because it occurs now. There was no customized then to provide and…
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