The celebration of Christmas and also of Easter, has, as your correspondent writes, been commercialised. Both have been heavily overlaid with tinsel and tradition I agree. But underneath are well attested facts of history that cannot be dismissed as myths and legends.
For the last 2000 years, give or take a year or two, history has been divided into BC (Before Christ) and AD (the Year of our Lord).Every time we write the date we tacitly acknowledge that 'Jesus came”.So it is still the calendar that tells us when the New Year, which Mr Izett is very willing to celebrate, actually begins.

K. Cole, Welcome Bay.