Christmas is a very special seasonal materialistic celebration of plenty from the harvest being conservatively used so that inventory stores are plentiful, and showing off about that by making a very big feast and party showing all the successful storage of those goods by being frugal before and being rich with one's decisions, and sharing that with family, staying warm together in the party, and helping each other make it to and from the party and learning who in the family needs a little bit of extra help for the rest of the cold winter, the days to get brighter and cheerier from then on, celebrating having made it to and through the darkest days, and of course that means giving presents to the children.  I've always loved Christmas for what it was meant to be and is.  It is definitely supposed to be materialistic, since that's the season.  It was intermediated by churches that imposed religion on it, but none of that is essential to the multi-millenia old holiday celebrations.  Notice that there are several names for this celebration in many parts of the world that either don't have church intermediation or have different church intermediation.  If you strip away all that intermediation, the core principles of Christmas, the winter solstace celebration of plenty inventory, riches, and help to the family that needs it, is essential to being human and making it through the rough of the darkest days of winter.  🎄 ||Ignore the churches, unless you like the churches, in which case, by all means.||

Christmas is meant to be a happy festive materialistic family gathering.  ||(Don't ever let anyone tell you that your Christmas materialism is bad, or that your Christmas has to be a failure (i.e., no materialism).)||