What do you think?

 

Since you said "....has become so commercialized....", I had to vote for Christmas.

Otherwise, I might have voted for Labor Day. My dad grew up with the labor movement in the 30's and his roommate became the President of the IUE in the late 40s/ early 50s. I think it's now the IBEW. Almost no one now knows how necessary the unions were in those days. Here's a good bumper sticker:

 

Yep, definitely Christmas. The stuff is coming out already and it's September.

 

No doubt Christmas, tlike Patty said the "season" has now stretched to over 3 months!
Levi

 

Most definitely, I think it is Christmas. I never get too excited about Christmas. It is not my birthday after all. There is no need in my view for expecting gifts.

 

I am not surprised by your responses as Christmas. But I disagree, as most people realize that it is a religious holiday, that has been commercialized.

I personally think there is another answer.

 

I don't think that you can say that any one holiday has been more commericalized than any other. They've all been commercialized. All of the holidays were established to honor an event, a movement, a person or people. Most of the original intent has been largely forgotten as the purpose of the holiday has been pushed aside in favor of department store sales.

Just as very few stop to think about the veterans on Veterans Day or the war dead on Memorial Day, very few stop to think about the worker on Labor Day. As a matter of fact, the labor movement has been so discouraged in recent years and the labor unions so demonized, that the original intent of Labor Day is probably the most forgotten and disrespected of all of the holidays. On the Sunday preceeding each and every one of these holidays there is much more space in your newpaper devoted to store wide sales than there is to the meaning of the holiday.

Christmas is responsible for more commerce than any other holiday. Most stores do at least 25 percent of their annual business between the day after Thanksgiving until Christmas day, but as far as being commercialized, I think they're all about equal.

None of this should come as a surprise. The hype, promotion and commercialization are the things we do best.

 

That is exactly my point. It is my belief that most people no longer realize or pass on to their children that Halloween is a religious holiday. It is the evening before All Saints day or or All Souls day. That is why the traditional costumes are ghosts or skeletons, etc. That is the eve before All Saints Day where the spirits would rise. It is a Pagan holiday.

 

Both major Christian holidays are coupled with pagan tradition. Christmas was chiosen so the early Christians could hide their celebratio of Christ's birth by moving it to the winter solstice from the springtime event. All of its trappings, ezxcept the creche, are pagan in origin. Easter, whose name comes from the goddess Esther, based on the root word oester, related to oestrus, is a feast celebrating fertility.

 

Aha......this explains the 'Esther Bunny'