No they are not. In a society that wars on Christmas and just about any other affirmation of Judeo-Christian culture, observances of those feasts are acts of Witness.
"I will never surrender of my own free will. If in command, I will never surrender the members of my command while they still have the means to resist."
13 posted on 11/20/2015 8:09:42 PM PST by ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN - 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in battle!)