now to be fair and honest christmas falls on the day of yule, which is a Pagan holiday, as a way of converting the pagans to christianity . there was no “Stealing” involved, it is very much a christian holiday.
to another answerer, santa claus is very christian, in fact its taken from saint nicholas, you know the catholic saint who wore a red robe and put goodies in peoples shoes, that guy.

Then it degenerated.

I am an atheist, but I do not make those claims.

Why do christians insist in the face of veritable evidence that the dates of their festivals correspond to dates of festivals of other theist and non theist groups?

Halloween – The festival of Samhain is a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture, and is sometimes regarded as the “Celtic New Year”.

Halloween – All hallows eve – It was a day of religious festivities in various northern European Pagan traditions, until Popes Gregory III and Gregory IV moved the old Christian feast of All Saints’ Day from May 13 (which had itself been the date of a pagan holiday, the Feast of the Lemures) to November 1.

Easter – The name refers to the Eostur-monath, a month of the Germanic calendar which may have been named for the goddess Ēostre in Anglo-Saxon paganism, attested by Bede.

Thanksgiving – In Grenada there is a national holiday of Thanksgiving Day on 25 October. It is unrelated to holidays in Canada and the United States even though it bears the same name. It marks the anniversary of the US-led invasion of the island in 1983 in response to the deposition and execution of Grenadan Prime Minister Maurice Bishop.

Christmas – A winter festival was traditionally the most popular festival of the year in many cultures.

Needless to say – but I think that a simple five minute surf of the internet has brought up enough cut ‘n paste to prove my point.

Although I knew most of this already, cut ‘n paste is convenient.

Do the research – do the math – do the laundry. I don’t care, just get some factual data / information before you make generalist uneducated remarks / assumptions.

Also, if I worded your question differently and questioned christianity, I would be accused of prejudice.

Should I therefore accuse you of prejudiced bigotry?

Eggs and rabbits were fertility symbols associated with Ishtar.
This may be why store flyers say “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas”. Right wing politicians try to use Christmas as an issue to tear down the Separation of Church and State so they can stir up their donors.

God loves you and so do I
Be Blessed

However, Thanksgiving has clear Christian connotations, although certainly harvest feasts were practiced near the same time of year in pre-Christian Europe. July 4th is neither Pagan nor Christian. It is a secular patriotic holiday.

Nice straw man you set up there!

Christmas – Yule
Easter – Eostre

Yah de ya deh yah…