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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hear the xmas songs when I am out shopping. I feel like every store has to play that song (Last Christmas) every 30 minutes. Also on 97.1. Love their Christmas music!

Also, the Africa song about "do they know it's Christmas time at all?" is horribly depressing. I really listened to the lyrics for the first time about a year ago and felt horrible afterwards.

[b]Isn't Christmas supposed to be a happy time? What gives with all the doom and gloom in the songs?[/b]!?!?
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[b]Christians believe that Christmas is a mixture of happy and sad, as Jesus' birth foreshadows his death and resurrection. So actually, Christmas songs can be either joyous or sad. [/b]But yeah, I do agree the Band Aid "Do they know it's Christmas?" song is kinda depressing.[/quote]

I've been a Christian my whole life and have never felt sad or heard anyone else say they felt sad about Jesus birth (and foreshadowing death).   I've only heard of it as being joyous.[/quote]

Then you obviously don't listen to much classical music.  The Messiah tells the story of Christ:  predictions of his life, his birth, his agony and death, resurrection, and the second coming, when all those who do not follow him burn in torment while his righteous followers rejoice.  Dark stuff.

I am a christian, too, and I certainly celebrate the season as a joyous time, but the historical roots of Christianity include a lot of darkness.  If there weren't evil in the world, what would good triumph over.  That's why so many carols have such a melancholy air to them.

More importantly, the Band Aid song is terrible because it is so sanctimonious.  Yeah, thise starving people in a war-torn nation that is largely not christian are only sad because they don't know that it's christmas.  The important thing is to be generous one day every year so that we can share the christmas spirit, not to, say, work towards universal peace and prosperity all our lives.  Just on Christmas.[/quote]

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