Christmas has its roots in Christianity, most certainly, if only by the name it bears. But Christ and Christianity have little to do with Christmas. Christians invoke it as the birthday of Jesus (a factual error), but the actual practice of celebrating Christmas has become a secular holiday enjoyed by people of all, or no, faiths.

Celebrating the Winter Solstice was a practice of many so called “pagan” religions. As the Romans, and subsequently the Spanish and Portuguese, conquered peoples, they spread Christianity in the wake of the corpses they created. The Catholic church was instrumental in making the conquered peoples as malleable as possible by allowing them to incorporate their own belief systems into the conquering Catholicism.

The results are seen today in Christianity celebrating both Christmas and Easter. Neither is biblical or historically related to the supposed events memorialized. Both are based on pagan holidays,

Reindeer and…