Part one of term paper
Celebration No Longer a Religious or a Family? Close your eyes and try to imagine this: the streets of Sarpsborg the last days before Christmas last year. Does it look like people are calm, happy, waiting for the festival when we celebrate the birth of Jesus? Can you see any signs of this reason why we celebrate Christmas in the shops, in the ...

Part two of term paper
... gives you the right associations to Christmas. But does the stable have many visitors? No, rather few. It looks like people no longer care about the reason for celebrating Christmas. The most important for them is to get a holiday, to buy a lot of presents to family and friends, and eat a lot of good food. Where is Jesus among all this? The time before Christmas is a very busy time, especially because all people have to buy gifts to each other. This is a rather new idea when we look at history, t ...