Even though I’m edging towards seventy it cannot be “old age” that is responsible for my increasing intolerance or cynicism with respect to the once–beautiful festival of Christmas. For, if for no other reason, Guyanese senior citizens – including myself – still love the nostalgia of what comprised the celebration of Christmases past.
What then irks me – and quite a few of my sixty–seventy plus peers? I suppose it really isn’t difficult to identify. It’s today’s rampant commercialism of this Christian festival which, after the Child’s actual virgin birth, was itself corrupted and disfigured by very non–Christian traditions and imagery having nothing to do with the Divine Baby
