Every year, it got more intense. The advertisements started earlier and earlier. The lawn decorations became bigger and brighter. And the consumerism—the craving, spending, and debt—got to be too much.
Family time seemed to be slipping away. It wasn’t what parents wanted for themselves and their children. Something had to change.
That version of the Christmas story is familiar to many Americans who have grown weary of the many social and financial obligations attached to the holiday season.
The sentiment is humorously expressed in a social media meme: “The War on Christmas cannot end until Christmas stops its illegal occupation of November. I am calling on the Claus regime to return to the borders agreed upon in the Black Friday Agreement.”…