For those that can’t stand this time of the year, my misery seeks company. What does it for you?
For me: aside from the usual family stuff:
I worked front-end in a post office back when that meant a line-up before I opened the doors to the end of the day when I had to inform the line-up that was still out the door that, yes, I was going to close on time. (Some didn’t take that well. For me it was just another Tuesday…)
It meant a lot of work with little thanks and I had to listen to the same shitty Xmas playlist over and over all day.
Edit/PS: The quick downvote sells it. Perfection. chefs kiss
Because it promotes Christianity
We have a (presumably) non Christian here saying because it promotes Christianity and elsewhere we have a (presumably) Christian saying because it promotes paganism.
Unironically though, I think it’s cool that we have a diversity of opinions here!
Christians of that sort are incapable of fun
I’d be fine with if that’s all it was, I can respect people who maintain tradition for whatever reason. It wouldn’t be important to me, but I get logically how tradition maintains community bonds. That’s fine, we have a lot of ethnic and religious traditions that various groups follow and they don’t impose it on anyone.
But Christmas most definitely does not promote Christianity, it promotes some kind of heinous, bastardized version of modern Christianity that’s completely about meaningless product consumption, decoration and ritual without meaning.
Will growing up learning to string electric lights on a slowly-dying pine tree turn a kid Christian? Most likely not… but he is sure going to learn that when he gets his own apartment (as required in modern capitalist single-family living) he will spend that money on his own dying pine tree and string of electric lights.