Ho, ho, ho, well if it isn't Christmas, the world's best loved holiday. Kids love Christmas because it causes their parents to buy them huge piles of stuff all at once. Businesses love Christmas because it causes everyone to buy huge piles of stuff. Christianity loves Christmas because it owes its continued existence to the holiday's popularity.

It seems intuitive that what large corporations see as vital to survival will prevail, as they back up their desires with the stupendous resources available to them. Businesses in general love Christmas because it throws the metabolism of commerce into high gear. People just buy more stuff during this season than during any other time of year. Many product development plans are put through insanely illogical schedule changes expressly for the purpose of a holiday season release. All this trouble is worth it for the business, as things released during this period will sell like oxygen cakes on the moon. Why are people so hot to purchase? Because Christmas makes avarice seem spiritual. It is always the generous, loving aspects of gift-giving that are emphasized, because it makes buyers feel good about themselves, and they are the ones spending the cash.

Logically then, any business with an interest in selling products also has an interest in seeing Christmas continue to be a popular and sincere holiday. The holiday is the property of Christianity. Hence, the giant commerce machine will go out of its way to keep this particular religion alive. Christianity owes a debt of gratitude to Christmas for its continued existence, as it would have probably died out long ago if not for capitalist America.

America has no national religion, and it is unconstitutional for us to establish one. By extension, it is unconstitutional to discriminate or exclude people based on whichever religion they have chosen. This has been the reason for initiatives to ban activities such as prayer in school which, while supposedly voluntary, can result in the unofficial exclusion and loathing of non-participants. In the same way, nonparticipants in Christmas festivities are often considered unpleasant. In fact, one popular film depicts them as fit only to die alone and unloved (A Christmas Carol). There are even specialized insulting names for those who don't buy into Christmas (Scrooge, Grinch). The extent to which we have been programmed to love this holiday is unsettling.

Yup, Christianity has been saved by the commercial aspect of its holidays.

and thats why nobody's getting any presents from me this year

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