"To Hell With It" - the "War" on Christmas | National Catholic Reporter

"To Hell With It" - the "War" on Christmas | National Catholic Reporter by MSW.  MGB: There is not war on Christmas because Christmas has co-opted the pagan holiday.  Jesus was actually born in April according to both astrology and the fact that the shepherds had their flocks in the field.  The feast of Christmas is an attempt to co-opt the pagan holiday which fills a very real human need to affirm light and life as the nights grow longer and darker, hence the drinking and frivolity.  While the commercialism is a bit regrettable, it evolves from the Feast of Epiphany being collapsed into Christmas because we are no longer an agrarian society.  It is apt to hijack the pagan solstice festivals because as Christians we proclaim that Christ is our light - however we should not make wrong the parts of the holiday that come from pagan roots, as they fill a very real human need.