@master_mind413 Saying Christmas has nothing to do with Christianity is a pretty big overstatement. I mean, yes, there are pagan roots and influences, and secular commercial influences, and many people celebrate Christmas without thinking of Jesus/religion, but Christianity is everywhere in Christmas! Santa Claus is based on a Christian saint, the name of the holiday itself references the religion, most Christmas songs reference Christ and most Christmas movies/stories are religious in tone if not in content (which many are), many Christmas decorations and images on cards are religious, public spaces are decorated with religious images and symbols (there’s a nativity scene in front of the court house in my city, for instance), and on Christmas eve and day people everywhere engage in Christian ritual worship. I don’t, and you don’t, but that’s a far cry from saying Christmas has nothing to do with Christianity.
@taciturnu Just to be clear, I’m not Christian. You know, no one ever asked me that, it never occured to me I’d actually be splitting up the family! Hmm. I guess the way I’d have it is the family celebrations would focus on the winter solstice and on the new year. Everyone can celebrate those things, Christian and non. Christians already celebrate the new year so that’s not too much of a stretch. So the family celebrations wouldn’t really change, they’d just happen a week earlier or later give-or-take. And on Christmas the Christians in the family would gather with their community as they already do. I mean I don’t go to church with my Granny, but I do have a family dinner party with her every year, so in my ideal world she’d still be going to church on Christmas and we’d still be having our party only it wouldn’t be called a Christmas party, but a winter solstice party or something instead.