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Sorry, Jesus...But Christmas Sucks.

Christmas time is perhaps the worst time of the year. Besides the fact that it's cold and wet it's also the time of year when poor people become more poor because we are expected to give and give. We not only have to give to friends and relatives but also to the landlord, the electric company, the phone company, the grocery store and to a whole host of others who want our money. Shit, now they even got us buying gifts for our co-workers with these semi-forced gift exchanges, secret Santas, white elephants and what ever else cute and clever names they can come up with. I feel bad because I don't have enough money to buy a decent present (not even at the $20 limit!) so I re-gift some bullshit gift I got from another bullshit gift exchange. And then what do I get in return? A bullshit gift! Now, I don't blame the other person, they're probably in the same boat I'm in...but wouldn't it have been much better to save our money and use it to buy perhaps a slightly better gift for someone we actually give a shit for?

Now, don't get me wrong! I'm all for giving...in fact I enjoy giving. But I prefer to give meaningfgul gifts to people that mean something to me and to the occasional stranger or random acquaintance in need. But I am poor. I don't make a lot of money and it is really a strain on me to have to buy EVERYONE gifts ALL at the SAME TIME. Man, it's harsh...you spend all this money and you know they aren't going to even like the gift...I mean, people are hard to shop for aren't they? Especially when you are pressured to get them something by a certain date...I have found GREAT gifts for people when I wasn't even shopping for them or for any particular holiday. Anyways, enough on the gifting tangent...I think we all get it.

The crazy thing is that I am not even a Christian, neither are most of the people I "celebrate" it with YET somehow we all get sucked into it! Christmas is bigger than Christianity. It was here BEFORE Christianity and other than a few superficialities it has very little to do with Christ or anything about him. I said I am not a Christian but Jesus the Christ fits prominently into my belief system and I have a LOT of respect for him and in many ways I feel that Christmas is a disrespect to him and his teachings. That's another reason why Christmas sucks but I won't get into all the theological details here.

Another reason why Christmas sucks is the so-called "War on Christmas" and the war on the "War on Christmas". Give me a loud motherfucking break! Why can't Santa say "Ho! Ho! Ho!" again? Are you serious???? I should pimp slap you. What's so wrong with saying "Happy Holidays"???? Isn't Christmas a holiday??? And isn't it just ONE of the MANY holidays this time of year??? So what's the fucking problem, man??? The idiots on both sides of this "war" all need to be nailed to a cross upside down by their genitals.