christmas- and christmas

i'm all for yule-tide fires
big red presents
pine needle living rooms
and turkey
i'm all for the Culture of Christmas

what i don't get
is people believing that celebrating Christmas this way
has anything to do with Jesus, or is somehow sufficient spirituality


but I'm glad historians agree that he was at least born
i'm glad some people still want to believe in Jesus and his birth
even if the details are skewed from scripture
because maybe the Christmas Story would lead
the masses to want to know more about
what Jesus is actually all about
what he really said and did
and then maybe they would know him
and believe in him
and then learn that christmas time is really just a burst of hot air
compared to the Truth of life
and then maybe people would celebrate is birth and his life and his death everyday
instead of through vain tradition and holly
that isn't actually Holy at all