@Magnifico: but do the things you like about Christmas have much to do with Christianity?

(I assume, by 'business activity', you are referring to capitalist business activity): It's achieved through the concept of private ownership of the means of production and of distribution, and of the collectively-produced commodity - everybody works, profits from the work go disproportionately to the owners of tools, factories, sales outlets, commodities etc. At Christmas a lot of things are sold and a lot of profits are generated.

High Buddhist thought doesn't have gods or deities, and if you wish to ignore much actually practice and belief that goes by the name of Buddhism, then you can say that 'Buddhism' has neither gods nor deities.
In place of 'Hinduism', an even vaguer term, I'll say Indian metaphysicians long ago developed schools of thought that denied any god or deity, and it's hard to say they weren't 'Hindus'.
And I still say totalitarianism is a misleading term for Tibet at any stage of its development, at least on a territory-wide scale.

@Geezer, OK, I'l accept that, but tell us about 'totalitarian'.
But I think it's hard to lay the organization of a theocratic state in Tibet at the door of Buddhism per se.
The idea that atheism is a single belief system: it is not a Western-founded belief system, there are plenty of ideas about the non-existence of gods etc. in belief systems around the world, including within Buddhist and Hindu philosophical traditions. Atheism does not make a Nietzschean into a Communist. But I will agree that the modern western towards an atheism 'proved' by evolutionary theory is a major Western-founded belief system, although this does not invalidate either evolutionary theory or the value of various religious answers to existential questions like the 'existence' of God.

Boudreaux doesn't mention what a machine for the concentration of wealth Christmas is. Perhaps Boudreaux thinks this is a good idea?
Anyway, hope everybody enjoyed the day.