Friday, December 14, 2007  Christmas, their Christmas
Christmas, their Christmas By Obo Effanga  The harmattan is
here; sounds of knockouts or bangers are everywhere. The year is
coming to an end; there is excitement and anxiety in the air.
People are more in a hurry than usual to do everything, from
walking, driving, making money and cheating. They call it
Christmas time! Christmas marks the biblical event of the birth
of Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the world, the foundation upon
which the world's largest religion is based. The story of that
birth itself is a lesson in humility. Interestingly, the
celebration of that event leaves much to be desired. It is often
said that most people go about celebrating Christmas without
appreciating the reason for the season. Many followers of
history have even queried the propriety of celebrating the birth
of Christ at all or on December 25. The argument is that the
Bible has no record anywhere where God or Christ commanded the
celebration of the Saviour's birth. This po