When did the names of the months become religious?
The point is, that which is good can be used for good, no matter the source.
Your question to me is actually striking. Speaking for myself, I don’t have my “faith” separated from the rest of my life. My faith is a part of my life every day. So, if I were offended by something secular, that offended my faith, I wouldn’t brush it aside by saying, “well that’s not a religious question”.
It shouldn’t surprise me anymore how much so many (including many Catholics) separate their faith from their everyday lives, as if the two (religion and “real life”) have nothing in common, have nothing to do with each other, and “shouldn’t” (according to the same people).
Either it is true as a matter of course that “good things, no matter the source, can be used for good”, or it’s not. That is, the preceeding phrase in quotes is a truism, in “religion” AND in “real life”, or it’s not.
To make it clear, it no longer makes sense to me when someone says, “That’s only a religious question. It doesn’t apply to real life.”
To me that says one’s religion, one’s faith isn’t truly real. So when someone says to me, it’s “pagan” to celebrate Christmas (for example) and yet still doesn’t have a problem with the names of the months having pagan origins, it means to me that person doesn’t believe their faith has any connection to reality, this reality, here and now. It means that, to me, because clearly such a person has two definitions of what is real, “religious reality” (whatever that means, actually it means nothing but just a feel good way to “believe in God”) and real life “reality”.
My Catholic faith has broken the artificial man made barrier between “religious reality” and “real life reality”. I truly pity those who’s faith is not so real.