> > I know that my own Christmas did not have even the slightest element of Christian meaning involved. In fact, I don't think I even *saw* any overtly religious symbolism or celebrations during my various excursions around town on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day.
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>Christmas is actually celebrating the birth of Jesus (not that that's a bad thing, we celebrate the day God rested after creating the world each week). It would seem a little weird for non-christians to celebrate that.

I'm well aware that Christmas celebrates the birth of Christ, Mango. My point was that IN ADDITION to being the Christian celebration of the birth of Jesus, Christmas is now *also* a completely secular holiday in which people celebrate family, peace, goodwill and so forth, without any Christian aspects of the day.