Well when it gets to Christmas, I get together with my family for an entirely secular gathering. We have a traditional Christmas turkey and never pray. We never watch religious programmes, regardless of it being 25th December. We exchange gifts, always without a religious theme. How am I being a hypocrite?
Because christmas is a religious festival, it's exactly like celebrating hannukah without being Jewish!
Christmas has been taken from more than one of them. Saturnalia appears to be it's biggest influence, from what I can gather, but I doubt that I'd get away with murdering someone that I didn't like at the end of the week.
All i'm showing is that you can't use infinite regress to disprove God's existence, theories without God with regards to the beginning of the universe have similar issues.
You do realise Christmas has evolved it's religious tag to most? It's mainly seen as a materialistic holiday than anything nowadays.
as i said the pagan festival they all refer to wasnt a 25th of december thing as such. since months and days were added and changed that would probably fall in january now which ever way you try and dress it christmas day 25th of december is a celebration of jesus's birth
But are we celebrating 'Christmas'? Or are we celebrating what the 25th December has come to mean for a large number of people - getting together as a family, etc? Are Christians hypocrites for celebrating the birth of Christ on a day 'borrowed' from Pagans, whose beliefs they reject?
Is pancake day going to be subject to this same ridiculously inaccurate analysis too or is that different?
It's the day before Jesus went into the desert to fast, a chance to enjoy yourself before lent, if anything more christian than christmas
