Many societies have had a winter festival designed to give hope for the coming spring when all is dead and cold around them. Yes, Christmas was placed on December 25 because it was a popular time for a festival of hope for the coming year. The message of Christmas fits with the general theme of those winter festivals, all of which had religious origins. I note that you also wrote "the pagan holiday," as if there was only one. Sorry, the festivals to which Christmas was added had, at one time, usurped their date from some previous winter festival.
The question isn't who performed the first winter festival; that's lost in time and will never be known. But the opposition to Christmas isn't about sharing, it's about suppressing.
Bill O'Reilly asked this question on his Fox News program last week: "Why do I have to be the leader defending Christmas against its attackers?" O'Reilly was criticizing Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee's renaming his state's Christmas tree a "holiday tree."
Good question. It's time for Christians to realize that their religion is under attack, and they had better start fighting to win the war for religious liberty in public opinion, in the courts and in the schools.
The war against Christianity has been waged by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Freedom From Religion Foundation and similar groups....
States Constitution does is prohibit the FEDERAL government from "establishing" (financially supporting) (or prohibiting) any religion. what part of the expression NO LAW do you not understand? The individual Sovereign States, however, are free to "establish a religion" if their citizens so desire. This Christmas practice is a State matter, not Federal. Stay out of the
Federal Courts.