@Finn dAbuzz,
Finn dAbuzz wrote:
If you don't want the Christ myth shoved down your throat, I'm all for you.
If you perceive every symbol or trapping of Christmas as shoving the Christ myth down your throat, I have no patience for you.
The Christmas season has all the faults of any other season, but at it's core there is a sense of community and fellowship.
People are nicer to one another on Christmas.
Yes, they should always be so nice to one another, but should we complain when they break the sad mold?
There is nothing particularly cool about bashing Christmas.
If you don't want to celebrate it, don't.
I think some people that identify with the holiday try to make it a time when they and family are in a Norman Rockwell Christmas themed diorama. Sort of like making summer into a Beach Boy themed diorama at the beach.
It just can become a little too, too. That is not bashing, I believe, just an awareness that some people turn into "Christmas season zealots," as though they will save Christian civilization by making the holiday season a fever pitched time, that culminates on December 26. We do know that the early colonists did not celebrate the holiday; it was considered a "Popish holiday." Possibly, the holiday became standard fare as immigrants came, whose background included the holiday, and the descendants of the early colonists (that owned the factories that the immigrants worked in) wanted to keep the assembly line workers happy?
I believe many holidays are used to inculcate children into the religion's fold, and also help the economy.