[allmendream]

I refer to X-mas as the secular version because of an episode of “Futurama” where when Frye said “Christmas” they said “He must be using an archaic form of the word”.

My point, no matter what you want to call it, is that most secular Americans, and certainly our retail outlets, celebrate YULE, not Christ-Mass.

And New Years is not exactly a Holy-day = Holiday. At least not for those who don't blow the ram's horn.

[The_Reader_David]

Oh? January 1 is the Feast of the Circumcision of Christ, and the Feast of St. Basil the Great. We Orthodox tend to have Liturgies to celebrate it. Of course, there’s also Theophany (a.k.a. Epiphany) on January 6 to round out the Holidays.

Actually Yule and Yuletide are good names for the secular festival since secular, despite its pretenses to “reason” is really re-paganized.