Every year this comes up. Most Christians know that Jesus was not born on December 25th. Christianity took over a pagan holiday that was celebrated on the 25th. in order to bury that pagan god ....
Joseph and Mary traveled to Bethlehem to pay taxes around the time of a Jewish holiday which is sometime in the Spring. Is DEC 25th the exact date? WE DON’T CARE!
I celebrate the birth of Jesus throughout the year.
This newscycle isn’t about the date, this is about the recognition of the event.
There's also the possibility that the pagans originally stole the date from Christians. That god you are talking about was Sol Invictus, and his cult was not established at Rome until the AD 200s. It was not an old pagan holiday in Rome by any means.