1. I love the commercialisation of Christmas

Comment #14090 by leonora on December 21, 2006 at 4:49 am

Good points! I remember when I was a child in the 1950s, adults kept saying how much they "hated Christmas these days, it's so commercialised"...and now, 50 years later, people go around saying "I hate Christmas these days, it's so commercialised"...so I do rather wonder, if everyone hates the commercialisation of Christmas as they claim, why do they contribute to its further commercialisation?
I agree that the festival should be secularised (I can just hear the fire being prepared for me as I type this!!), and there may be an argument for changing the name, since many of us don't actually celebrate CHRISTMAS as such, not the birth of Christ, we just celebrate the Winter Solstice - every culture that has ever existed has had some kind of ritual to observe the Winter Solstice. So perhaps some more inclusive name might be a good idea....but then the Christians would take offence.....