Thanks for thinking of me... :-)
I used to celebrate Christmas, but stopped about 5 years ago....
The Top 10 Reasons I Don't Celebrate Christmas
That being said, imagine if some Muslim group wanted to include Ayatollah dolls that spouted phrases such as "Death to America"!
Interesting stuff and I mostly agree with you, but I don't see a reason not to celebrate Christmas as both a pagan and Christian holiday. It's like any other holiday these days - it's a national party - with specific themes invoked. One of them is Christ's birth. Another is Santa Claus. And so on. It's an accumulation of traditions over hundreds of years, so I just look at it as that.
"the conditions surrounding His birth in a stable in Bethlehem, the heavenly choir's performance for the shepherds in the fields outside the town. But nowhere in the Bible is there any record of anyone observing Christmas or any hint that God the Father or Jesus Christ expects us to do so."
What do you think the shepherds were there for at his manger? Free lambchops? It was a celebration. No doubt it has gotten out of control commercially. I HATE having to stand in line for BlockBusters sales after Thanksgiving.