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Carl Trueman

Commercialism

Blaise Pascal

Carl Trueman: Perhaps the irony of Christmas is that, in its current form, it has become one of the focal points of the culture of distraction, which Pascal so ably critiqued. It is all about consumption, which is just another form of distraction and diversion.

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Jim

Mon, 12/19/16 3:52 pm

Re: " It is all about consumption"

Re: ” It is all about consumption”

Make it “NOT about consumption”

See the SMUGS

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/in-1912-thousands-of-women-in-new-…

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Whoever restrains his words has knowledge, and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding.

(ESV, Proverbs 17:27)