Christmas. PAGAN !!

Is the Christian holiday that celebrates the birth of Jesus, who Christians believe is The Son of God. The name Christmas is the day of the Christ's birth, which is why Christians call it Christmas, though it is pronounced like Chris muhss.
Over the least few decades Christmas has been commercialized more and more.The religious signification was almost lost, and the retail industry has pushed hard to focus the festival on giving (many, preferably expensive) gifts or presents to one another. This is shown in a recent push for the term "X-mas" (X sound resembles Christ) instead of the traditional "Christmas
I feel this does put things into perspective, the true meaning has for most been totally forgotten, frantic shopping, tiredness, and a bad temper seems to be how we all end up, so what has gone wrong ?.
The more we can eat and drink the better !!!, the bigger and better presents we can give the better, and finally what are we left with , a big dept which for many will take until next Christmas to pay of or beyond.

Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas on the 6th of January (Supposedly Magi came to the birthplace of Christ and left presents at that date, but the Orthodox church still uses the Julian Calendar to do calculations. This calendar is about 10 days off compared to the modern calendar.)
Catholics and Protestants celebrate on the 25th of December (Feast of Mithras, as above).
Christmas tree
In most homes when Christmas is celebrated, people either chop down their own Christmas tree down and bring it indoors to decorate, or they buy one from a Christmas tree lot. Evergreen trees are used which began as a custom in Germany. It is said that this particular tree, which is green all year round and never loses its beautiful fragrance, symbolizes the never changing love of Jesus Christ. Young children wait for the arrival of presents from Santa Claus, a name derived from the original St. Nicholas who lived in the 4th century. St. Nicholas would deliver presents in secret to those in need in his small village. Christmas is one of the holiest of calendar days in the church year for Christians, as they celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ,who came to save sinners from a life apart from God. Through the sacrifice of Christ's life, 32 years later, mankind would have the ability to be forgiven by God for sin as well as the promise of receiving ever-lasting life after death. Jesus was not actually born on December 25th, but the church made that day a feast (Probably also to counter other pagan rites that took place at that time of the year. The feast to the god Mithras is said to have been held at that time).