After getting to watch quite few religious types try to work their Magic on Christmas, I am starting to realize they really don’t get what Christmas is supposed to be about. Originally Christmas festivities would have been about curing the winter blahs, and perhaps helping out a neighbor that was struggling.
During the winter you can easily see why that would be a good idea, of course once Christians got a hold of it all the goodwill was lost and it became more of a bargained for exchange, where if you agree to pretend you believe in myths, like Jesus and Santa clause, maybe someone will help you out. At some point the intrinsic value of helping people went away, it became all about earning your way into heaven.
So anyway merry Xmas to everyone