Particularly during the Christmas shopping season, it's fun to watch this new secular religion collide with one of our more established ones: shopping. Just last week, I received a renewal notice from my favorite newsmagazine that promised if I renewed my subscription now (and thereby kept the publishers from sending me 10 more paper reminders), I could "renew the Earth" at the same time.
Saha katika msimu wa krismasi wa kununua, ni ya furaha kuona hii dini mpya ya kidunia ikigongana na zile ambazo zimekuwa hapa: ununuaji. Wiki uliopita tu, nilipata ilani wa upya kutoka gazeti la habari ninayopenda, ili ahadi ati kama ningefufua chango changu sasa(na kwa hivyo ningezuia wanaozichapisha kunitumia makaratsi 10 zaidi za makumbusho), ninge fanya upya dunia pia kwa muda sawa.