This means no sales, no themed merchandise, no decorations. December 25 and most other day are treated just like any other day for all stores malls, restaurants, ect.
You’d still get non religious holiday events like mothers days, or independence days.
What whould change?
Christmas isn’t a religious holiday. Christmas today has basically nothing to do with the birth of Jesus, just like how Halloween isn’t celebrating the Grim Reaper. It’s just a fun and festive time.
Lots of companies would see their stock price lower as Christmas is a major generator of sales, both with sales and themed goods.
I’d call that the shock period. But imagine that would be temporary and less bad then we think.
Eventually I’d hope for less stores that only open for the holiday season and only hire for the rush. Things could just spread out more and we’d all be less dependent in revenue created from one event. We could focus our buying power on useful things and less cheap plastic crap bought to appease old rituals.
All very optimistic and unrealistic thoughts though
Christmas at this point isn’t even a religious holiday.
Do people worship Santa Claus? I mean, they do sort of worship the God Consumerism, to be fair.
However, the baby Jesus ain’t got shit to do with the modern version of this holiday.
Just ask the fucking Saturnalia trees we break out every year. The holiday has absolutely loads of pagan traditions present in it because when Constantine shouted out “Hey all you Romans, all of you are Christian now!” didn’t actually work very well. So they started mashing existing traditions onto the “new” tradition. So the Romans just took Saturnalia and slapped Christmas on it and was like “this totally tracks!” to get people to accept Christianity as the new religion of the Empire.
I mean, holy fuck, middle eastern winters are far too cold for a baby in a manger. Kid would have frozen the fuck to death.
Whole thing is a joke anyway from fucks who don’t know shit about history because the only book they bothered to ever try to read (and they only really read what their preacher told em) was the Bible.
If they read (and believed) other books, they would and should be embarrassed.
They’d probably lose a lot of money, both from not having the sales and from the anger stoked by the “WAR ON CHRISTMAS!!!” guys
It would be easier for workers who are religious to take those days off; currently they’re often “blackout” days with regards to time-off requests.
It’s so weird when people refer to Christmas as religious holidays. Like, I know its Christianity origins, but Christians just stole it from pagans, gave it a different name and called it their own.
I live in an atheist country and everyone celebrates Christmas, just without all the religious bullshit.
“Target Promotes Atheism To Children”
Like what would happen if stores gave up possibly their most profitable period of the entire year? Christmas would go on via Etsy and eBay and such. It might slowly die as the years go on, but Christmas has a lot of momentum even if stores aren’t selling the gear.
The “Christians” would commit a series of shootings and bombings.
Capitalism forbids fewer reasons to buy things.
It also forbids stagnation, it can built a bigger and better holiday
