Describe the rituals for gurpurab and christmas.
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Christmas comes but once a year. But it takes over our lives, along with our budgets and credit ratings, even though, like many Americans, I am not even a nominal Christian.
Christmas is a bonanza for retailers and sales outlets. People go into debt to buy what they neither need, nor want, nor can afford.
The day after Christmas, the fever breaks. Shoppers line up hours before stores open, to return the gifts that they neither needed, nor wanted, nor could afford.
This Christmas virus sees not that one may be a devout deist, while the other is a committed agnostic or atheist. It makes no distinction between an observant Christian and Muslim, Hindu, Jew or Sikh. No one is immune.
Businesses love it; they live and die by it.
Periodically and predictably, debates erupt on whether we are a Christian nation or not. Many of the foundational values, culture and laws of this society stem from Christianity. This nation's founding fathers were practicing Christians; nevertheless, the Constitution is clear in separating church and state.
We all know that Christmas honors the birth of Christ, even though no one really knows for certain exactly when Jesus was born.
Much of what is now integral to the celebration of Christmas derives its origin from ancient pre-Christian traditions. For example, many millennia ago, Mesopotamians celebrated New Year with a twelve-day festival; thus the Twelve Days of Christmas. Saturnalia, of the ancient Romans, lasted from the middle of December to the first of January, when they decorated homes and exchanged gifts.
To the Roman emperor Constantine, who converted to Christianity, political realities mandated the merging of pagan and Christians celebrations. Though rooted in pagan practices, Christmas is now inseparably woven into the fabric of Christianity and our cultural ethos. It knits together diverse people and many esoteric faiths and festivals.
Minorities do not live a secluded existence inside impenetrable barriers - that would become an unacceptable ghetto. Majoritarian cultural practices continue to seep into the traditions of minority communities. And quite expectedly, minorities often adjust their holidays somewhat, to piggyback on the celebrations of the majority community.
Divali, for instance, stems from Hindu mythology, with tenuous connection to Sikhi, and none to Islam, Christianity or Judaism. Yet, irrespective of religious persuasion, it would be a rare Indian who did not observe this national holiday.
In India, it is Divali that intrudes into Sikh space and colors its traditions; in the West, it is Christmas.
No one is an island.
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Christmas comes but once a year. But it takes over our lives, along with our budgets and credit ratings, even though, like many Americans, I am not even a nominal Christian.
Christmas is a bonanza for retailers and sales outlets. People go into debt to buy what they neither need, nor want, nor can afford.
The day after Christmas, the fever breaks. Shoppers line up hours before stores open, to return the gifts that they neither needed, nor wanted, nor could afford.
This Christmas virus sees not that one may be a devout deist, while the other is a committed agnostic or atheist. It makes no distinction between an observant Christian and Muslim, Hindu, Jew or Sikh. No one is immune.
Businesses love it; they live and die by it.
Periodically and predictably, debates erupt on whether we are a Christian nation or not. Many of the foundational values, culture and laws of this society stem from Christianity. This nation's founding fathers were practicing Christians; nevertheless, the Constitution is clear in separating church and state.
We all know that Christmas honors the birth of Christ, even though no one really knows for certain exactly when Jesus was born.
Much of what is now integral to the celebration of Christmas derives its origin from ancient pre-Christian traditions. For example, many millennia ago, Mesopotamians celebrated New Year with a twelve-day festival; thus the Twelve Days of Christmas. Saturnalia, of the ancient Romans, lasted from the middle of December to the first of January, when they decorated homes and exchanged gifts.
To the Roman emperor Constantine, who converted to Christianity, political realities mandated the merging of pagan and Christians celebrations. Though rooted in pagan practices, Christmas is now inseparably woven into the fabric of Christianity and our cultural ethos. It knits together diverse people and many esoteric faiths and festivals.
Minorities do not live a secluded existence inside impenetrable barriers - that would become an unacceptable ghetto. Majoritarian cultural practices continue to seep into the traditions of minority communities. And quite expectedly, minorities often adjust their holidays somewhat, to piggyback on the celebrations of the majority community.
Divali, for instance, stems from Hindu mythology, with tenuous connection to Sikhi, and none to Islam, Christianity or Judaism. Yet, irrespective of religious persuasion, it would be a rare Indian who did not observe this national holiday.
In India, it is Divali that intrudes into Sikh space and colors its traditions; in the West, it is Christmas.
No one is an island.