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Christmas - 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 streets of Sarpsborg? After taking a really good look, maybe …

…station. I really feel pity for these people. My opinion about Christmas celebration today is that it is no more a religious celebration, at least not as much as earlier, but it is a family celebration. Of course there are these lonely elderly people, and these children from dissolved, separated and alcoholized families who don't experience Christmas as a family celebration, but that Christmas generally is a family celebration in Norway, that I can maintain.