Did you get some coal in your stocking last year?
Sheesh, some people find Christmas to be a joyous occasion without any political overtones. Peace on Earth and Good Will Toward Man. That sort of thing.
If you don't like it, ignore it. But don't try to define it for the rest of us because you couldn't be more wrong, dude.
Incidentally, "Old Nick" is what Maureen Kavanaugh Templeton's leprechauns amicably called the devil. St. Nicholas was a sixth-century almsgiver, whose feast day is December 6. St. Nick emerged as Santa Claus from among the New York Dutch a century or two ago. The Russians have a similar character, Grampa Frost. There are few things more Christian than a charitable gift-giver. There are few better ways to mock the Grim Reaper than to dress up as him and act like a fool. "O Death, where is thy sting?" This fear of holidays is downright Puritanical. Not suprising, considering our nation's origins, but forgive this poor papist if he declines to partake of moral indignation at human festivity.
For what it's worth, my costume's inspiration was my namesake Caomhghin of Glendalough.