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Because it promotes Christianity
We have a (presumably) non Christian here saying because it promotes Christianity and elsewhere we have a (presumably) Christian saying because it promotes paganism.
Unironically though, I think it's cool that we have a diversity of opinions here!
I'd be fine with if that's all it was, I can respect people who maintain tradition for whatever reason. It wouldn't be important to me, but I get logically how tradition maintains community bonds. That's fine, we have a lot of ethnic and religious traditions that various groups follow and they don't impose it on anyone.
But Christmas most definitely does not promote Christianity, it promotes some kind of heinous, bastardized version of modern Christianity that's completely about meaningless product consumption, decoration and ritual without meaning.
Will growing up learning to string electric lights on a slowly-dying pine tree turn a kid Christian? Most likely not... but he is sure going to learn that when he gets his own apartment (as required in modern capitalist single-family living) he will spend that money on his own dying pine tree and string of electric lights.