[kuma]

I have to disagree about Chanukah. It's called the Feast of Dedication in the New Testament and Jesus went to the Temple to celebrate it. The celebration is a remembrance of a miracle that God did concerning the Second Temple. In this sense it is incomparable with Kwanzaa which was simply made up.

[TheCrusader]

"In this sense it is incomparable with Kwanzaa which was simply made up."

I never did compare Hannuka with Kwaanza, I simply used both as an example that neither one of these events is anywhere near as important to their followers as Christmas is to Christians.

Christmas became a national holiday because of its supreme importance to Christians in America, whereas neither Hannukah nor Kwaanza would be given that kind of prominence even in their lands of origin of Israel and Africa. They are comparatively minor events. Hence, neither of them belongs in the same category as Christmas, and they (by design) serve only to bring Christmas down to some theologically insignificant "holly jolly holiday season".