Actually Christianity only put a Christian veneer over non-Christian celebrations. So basically we've kept a commercialized version of our favorite pagan tradi

Actually Christianity only put a Christian veneer over non-Christian celebrations. So basically we've kept a commercialized version of our favorite pagan traditions that Christianity tried to appropriate. Think I'm being extreme? Just remember that the Bible says that Jesus was born during lambing season, which is in the Spring, so Christianity had to ignore its own texts to place it at the same time as the pagan Saturnalia festival.