Is this real.
FS. Not a bunch of commercialistic trash like Christmas.
thats why even non Christians like Christmas and even loosely celebrate it.
Is that a good thing?
Yes, because I loved getting presents on Christmas from who I thought was Santa(who I thought was real till I turned 8 )when I was little .Also I liked putting up a Christmas tree and going to Christmas parties .
Surely, if we needed some secular holiday to use an excuse to give and receive gifts, we could choose some secular holiday or construct a Cult of Reason like in Revolutionary France. Why not Thanksgiving? An obese pilgrim could clamber down every noble patriot's chimney in late November, granting the "gifts of liberty" to materialistic little children.