I will celebrate this time of the year in the way that I feel is appropriate for my family and I expect you to have the same right. Fair enough?
Finally, with regards to your comments about human sacrifice and orgies and practicing the holiday the way that it was originally intended........might you do the same? I have no problem with people celebrating the birth of Jesus annually in December and January (Orthodox)....but would you show me where (in the bible) that was instituted as a religious practice for the church? Never mind the discrepency in the time of year that his birth actually took place. I'll get all orthodox AFTER you do, darlin'. :D
It's the passage of the New Testament following the full description listing the Canon of Scripture book by book and the passage where Paul spells out specifically that Sola Scriptura is the only means of salvation.
I'm Assyrian "darlin". For over 1800 years my people have been Christian. We never had tress or yule logs or human sacrifice this time of year. When my people came to Western nations, they took part in the sanitized Christian version of the Holiday. It is nowhere mentioned in the Bible, but then again it's not forbidden either. Putting up "Christmas" trees doesn't make one a heretic. Dancing around an evergreen while burning sacrifical victims alive does though. Getting wasted while partying with your friends doens't make you a heretic. Getting wasted, while engaging in group sex, and praising Saturn does.