It’s OK to Not Like Christmas

You can survive the next three weeks

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Do you love Christmas? That’s cool, I respect that. Have fun.

I want to talk about and with those who don’t consider Christmas the “most wonderful time of the year,” because I respect them too.

As long as I can remember, I have been more or less anti-Valentine’s Day. It occurred to me at a young age that there is something a little screwed up about reserving one day a year for expressing feelings you should want to share every day.

I mention Valentine’s Day in an article about Christmas Day because the same argument can apply. Now, before you get your Christmas stockings in a twist, I am not anti-Christmas, but I can understand why someone might be.

You don’t have to be Mr. Scrooge to feel that there is something a little screwed up about the adoration of the Christmas holiday in both its religious and commercial manifestations. That is actually part of the problem with Christmas — it is now two separate holidays (religious and corporate) occurring at the same time of…