My reasoning for believing that stores should be closed on Christmas has very little to do with religion. (And I don't think there's a war on Christmas, either.) I just think that people need family time, and with so many retail stores and other businesses being open nearly all the time, families often have conflicting work schedules. It's not healthy for families to have so little together time anymore. Since Christmas is widely celebrated, moreso it seems than other holidays, I think it's logical that it would be a kind of universal holiday--regardless of religious observance or non-observance. Or it could be Thanksgiving, for all I care. Or both. People don't need to shop 365 days/year! IMO. Family time is important, and too few families get it due to 24/7 work schedules. Nothing to do with religion.
As a side note, my son recently left the retail world. One year his store was open on Thanksgiving. He said there were so few customers and they had so few sales, he figured they lost money that day. So why bother being open? The retail store I used to work at tried opening on Thanksgiving one year and found the same thing. So they never did it again.
We Americans should do what people in other countries do: work to live, not live to work. JMHO, of course.
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