[TheGunny]

They can have it. Every year it grows more and more insignificant and irrelevant...thats how important the “social and cultural” aspects are. It has nothing to do with people becoming acclimatized or familiar with death. Its bunk.

[Philo-Junius]

It gets more materialist the more Christians opt out, in the absence of any better contextualisation.

As I say, you don’t have to participate, but it is now the second-biggest holiday in the country, bigger than Independence Day now in terms of holiday-specific observance by the population and consumption. Christians need to show up, or be left out of the conversation.