I celebrate Christmas as a cultural holiday, because I really don't give half of a smashed rat's ass about the religious hokum surrounding this dominant incarnation of the Winter Solstice celebration (oh, and no I don't dress up in pine branches and sit out in a field watching the sun rise and celebrating solstice). I'm rather comfortable thinking of the period between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day as the "holiday season." When I hear some shitbag talking "Jesus is the reason for the season," it's usually 1 of 3 possibilities:
- Puritanical obsession with people believing exactly as he/she believes.
- Hypocritical pronouncement of someone who wouldn't walk 2 steps in Jesus's sandals.
- Combination of the first two. They're the best. Someone like Bill O'Reilly.