There is no true meaning of Christmas because Christmas doesn’t exist apart from our minds. The true meaning of Christmas isn’t Jesus, or paganism, or Santa Clause, or charity. Christmas is a day that people invented meanings to. Non of these inventions came from reality. The sign is not the reality. The ritual is not the reality. That doesn’t mean that rituals are bad. It is okay to enact a ritual in comemorance of a reality, it is not okay to make the ritual into the reality and then get into all kinds of heated debates with people about what the ritual really means.
