The modern American form is a consumerist orgy owing more to Macy’s, Coca-Cola, and greeting card industry than Christianity, that has less in common with the Christian holiday some of whose elements it adapted than the Christian holiday has to do with Saturnalia.
There are Christian (and particularly protestant) cultural influences and vestiges all around us, in many of our attitudes towards things.
The idea that the modern American lifestyle is completely divorced from Christianity is only possible because of the way in which our culture has become naturalized to you.
> There are Christian (and particularly protestant) cultural influences and vestiges all around us, in many of our attitudes towards things.
Sure, that doesn't contradict anything I said, which was restricted to a particular response about the modern American commercial festival of “Christmas".
> The idea that the modern American lifestyle is completely divorced from Christianity
...is not one I’ve expressed, so if you want to argue against it, go respond to someone actually making that argument.
The modern American form is a consumerist orgy owing more to Macy’s, Coca-Cola, and greeting card industry than Christianity, that has less in common with the Christian holiday some of whose elements it adapted than the Christian holiday has to do with Saturnalia.