What's all this about deeper meaning???

Xmas was a pagan / Roman festival hijacked so the proselytising Christians could make it easier to convert them.

Xmas is, like anything else, what you make it. I am not a Christian, in fact I am not a member of any superstition. So I do get a bit angry when Christians try claiming you cannot enjoy it as much if you miss out the little baby jesus...

I enjoy it by eating, drinking, laughing, seeing my lads, watching the football.....

That IS Xmas. Or at least it is my Xmas. If yours is different, then good luck. Just don't try enforcing yours onto mine.

I keep looking for those Santa on a cross figures that were popular a few years ago. Keep the god botherers from the door. (And some of her happy clappy relatives for that matter.)