Holidays and Observances

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My bf and I were talking yesterday about holidays. The commercialization and the hipocracy of all our religious holidays and observances is getting to be nauseating. Easter is not about chocolate bunnys, nor bunnies made by Cadbury, or candy, or easter egg hunts, it is supposed to be an obeservance of the day that the Son of God redeemed us all and took our sins upon himself so that we could be saved and could attain the kingdom of heaven. At Christmas time I am sure that more people worship Santa Claus than God or his great gift Jesus Christ. There are religious observances for all but federal holidays, Why then do we either get the day off or get paid extra, by law, for going to work. There is supposed to be a seperation between the church and the state, so why are schools and federal buildings closed for the observation of religious holidays. As for federal Holidays almost all of them are floating holidays which normally occur to give us three-day weekends and such. When we realize that it is a holiday weekend most of the people I ask aren't even certain what holiday we are "celebrating" and what we are celbrating on that date for. We obviously all have access to the internet and we are living in what is supposedly the "information age" so why is it that we know less and less when the information is at our fingertips. I know that Holidays are made special for children with the fictional charachters and all of the falderah that you find in the stores to commemorate the holiday. However I think that a better way to make holidays special is to spend them observing what they are for and educating our children as to why this day is sacred or special rather than filling their heads with a bunch of fairy tale nonsense.