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Sounds like you need a little help understanding a few things. Does every day belong to God? Because of Christ isn't every single day a Sabbath? Christ is our Sabbath.

In scriptures there is a power given to Christians to "bind" and to "loose" should two or three of them agree together about a certain matter, be it a business deal, regards to a holy day, etc, therefore it is bound in heaven. When Christians decide to conquer a pagan holiday or tradition and bind it, this is noted in heaven, when Christians decide to loose a day from pagan worship and bind it into a day of Christ worship that is noted and honored in heaven.

As the Catholic Church began to evangalize a nation the Church would often turn the traditional days and reasons for worship into Christian holidays. Such as the pagan tradition in Ireland of laying out food and sweets one night a year so that long dead relatives visiting them on that one night would not become jealous or angry and give them bad luck for a year.

The Church claimed that day, dressed half the towns people as devils the other half as angels and at the end of the celebration the angels would run the devils out of town. All symbolic. Did the Church have the right to do that? Under the authority of binding and loosing they do.

There is much made of the pagan tree that is now the Christmas tree. Christians do not worship a tree, they do not make an idol of the tree. The tree symbolizes Christ, evergreen, ever alive, and the ornaments the gifts of the Magi. This is perfectly fine with our Father in heaven who gives His children freedom to worship Him in ways that they agree to.

Col 2:16 "Therefore let no man judge thee in regards to meat, or drink, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ."

So I think you can relax a little bit about being up tight over Christian celebrations that were conquered from old pagan traditions.