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This thing we do on new year's eve but i don't attend such things

I do, when Christians come up to me and ask if I'm celebrating Christmas the way it was originally celebrated.

I got the feeling from that , that you are not a christian? If a christian comes up walking to you, asking you, i think he refers about christmas in the first and second century...

I am a Christian, but I'm not a Christian. I refer you to the God forum

But that's the beauty in it tarbo, they refer to "their" Christmas as the "original" one, which leaves them open for a lecture left, right and center.

Not that I enjoy it..

But that's the beauty in it tarbo, they refer to "their" Christmas as the "original" one, which leaves them open for a lecture left, right and center.

Well a very lame argument would be the fact that the pagan tradition was not called christmas (obviously) and was something else (winter solstice etc.), thus it was not christmas because nobody reffered to it as christmas. Onthe other hand the christmas celebration was called and therefore was christmas (the first to use the term)
It's true that the church blended the new celebration with the old one to make the passing of the new religion easier, but tehnically the old celebration was not christmas ; in areas like asia and america which never had this precursor celebration the christian celebration known as christmas is the first well... christmas!