Reply #28: Well, I'm an atheist, and I hate Christmas, but not why you think!

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The main reasons I hate Christmas are:

1) "Holiday" good wishes/decorations/etc are just Christianity with most of the vocabulary stripped out, and I live in a *very* multicultural area. One year, I counted, and I had friends celebrating FIVE holidays right around then. I must admit that I'm not on very good terms with public Christianity, even if it's wearing a rubber mask, and I imagine that it's downright offensive to some people.

2) The...same...damn...Christmas...carols...over...and...over...again!
/me slams head into monitor several times
Anyone out there ever seen the Oxford Book Of Carols? There are *hundreds* of Christmas carols in it -- and those are ONLY the ones from the British Isles! So why, why, why must we hear (every time we dare to venture into a public place) an ad nauseam repetition of "Jingle Bells," "Hark the Herald Angels Sing," "Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer," "O Come All Ye Faithful," "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen," "Winter Wonderland," "Sleigh Ride," "White Christmas," and the like, over and over again?! Oh, yes, and may I also mention, for the sake of Bad Old King Henry (the VIII, who wrote the piece) that Victorian abominable bastardization known as "What Child is This," more properly known by its actual name, "Greensleeves"? (I didn't think it would be possible for anyone to commit a gross excess that would cause Henry VIII to spin in his grave, but...)

It's BORING! It's UNCREATIVE! It SUCKS!

3) The obligation. My family celebrates the Vile Holiday. I, given my druthers, would not. Nevertheless, I can't "opt out"; I have to buy (and give) the gifts, show up for the dinner, do the whole tiresome family thing (and hope that a bitter political fight doesn't start), and the whole nine yards.

4) It's an anticlimax. Society hypes Christmas so much (not so much here as where most of you are, I think) that by the time it actually gets there, I'm well and truly sick of it. I think I've been sick of Christmas for about 15 years now...

Hell, we shouldn't even be having this thread now. NO MORE talking about Christmas until AFTER American Thanksgiving, or Dec. 15th, if you can wait that long (please do)!