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is, in today's secular world really a New Year festival, with Santa Claus representing the spirit of the Old Year and the New one hazily identified with the Christ child.

not pressed, because that would lead to the unwelcome inference that the birth of Christ and the death of Santa Claus are the same event.

is a bridge over the the passing river of time. It is about creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.

Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday. Gladys Taber

is a grand festival of consumption with a significant segment of American retailing living or dying on profits connected with the yuletide season.

Schmidt argues that 'Christmas stands out as the grand 'festival of consumption,' with a significant segment of American retailing living or dying on profits connected with the Yuletide season' (Schmidt 1995:4), while Horsley is emphatic that 'In holiday retailing, economics is inseparable from religion' and that, to paraphrase Clifford Geertz, 'the consumer economy [is] inseparable from religious mood and motivation' (Horsley 2001a: 173)

is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.

Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected. Jimmy Cannon

loneliness

is a lovely in part because it is compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together. Garrison Keillor

is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets.

Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets. Charles Dickens

consumerism

gift giving

is a rare occasion that reminds of obligations to people one did not choose to be related to. It reminds that love is not just a spontaneous feeling but something one sometimes really has to work at, with people one may not even much like.

Christmas is a rare occasion when we are reminded that we have obligations to people we did not choose to be related to, and that love is not just a spontaneous feeling but something we sometimes really have to work at, with people we may not even much like. Julian Baggini

is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. Washington Irving

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