If You Worship Santa Instead of Christ, Then Don't Call it Christmas

I just finished reading the most ridiculous article on having a secular Christmas. This is, by definition, impossible.

The Word Christmas by definition is the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. As we all know Christ is most definitely a religious figure. Christmas Day is a Religious Holy Day for Christians.

The word secular by definition means not religious or spiritual in nature. Ergo a secular Christmas is impossible. It is an oxymoron. For those who may not know what oxymoron means, it is two words that are contradictory to each other. Again, by all definitions a secular Christmas, is impossible.

Now that we have all the definitions out of the way I can move on to why I wrote this article. Yes, I am a Christian and celebrate the Birth Of Christ; therefore I celebrate Christmas. What I don't understand, is how people who choose not to believe in Christ, or celebrate his birth, can in all good conscience say they celebrate Christmas. They say they think of it as a day that revolves around Santa, family and friends. Then why do they call it Christmas? Again, Christmas is the celebration of the Birth Of Jesus Christ.

This article is NOT about how people should be Christian, or believe in Christ. Religion and belief is the choice of each individual person. However; I do find it offensive that these people are taking what is an important Religious Holiday to some, namely Christians, and twisting it into a day of worshipping Santa, family and friends. There are many religions all over the world. Each one has their own Holy Days. I would never think of demeaning or changing one of their important religious holidays into something it wasn't. To me that's being sacrilegious toward someone else's belief.

Why is it so acceptable in this country to take an important religious holiday of Christian people and change it into something it is definitely not? There cannot be any argument for this. I will always believe that everyone has the freedom to choose the religion they want, or none at all. But what I do have a problem with is taking anyone's Religious holiday and degrading to the level of something it is not.