No, no, no! Christmas is about pressuring consumers into spending money they don’t have. The relentless pressure campaign starts the day after Halloween.

Yes… There are some gorgeous seasonal songs. But the lyrics that do delve into the original Christmas story pretty much pervade the myth of the donkey and the manger and the virgin mother in a random mishmash of gospel fragments we were brainwashed to believe as children to be literal history.

(Am I bitter? You bet I am. And, you are absolutely correct, Dan. Sadly, the true heart of the season is long gone.)