I love how a holiday American Christianity traditionally damned as too riotous and materialistic is now held by the descendants of those original people to be traditional American values when nothing could be further from the Truth. The revival of Christmas in the USA had more to do with Charles Dickens than any religious figure of the time and these days the only reason for the season is to keep retailers in the black.

The Birth of Christ is now the Salvation of Mammon. How fun. /snerk.