h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Perhaps the question should be should xmas be called xmas any more.
people have always celebrated the time of year when the days begin to get longer . Christians merely pinched those dates as a convenient overlay to lessen the impact of previous celebratory traditions. What is meant by celebrations? It has a different meaning for everyone. Some people get drunk , some people like to eat enormous ammounts of high calorie food, some like to give lots of presents , some like to stay at home. If you have no accessable children in your family and no-one to visit you might feel excluded. Most people have taken part of all these behaviours through their lives. The only good things that one can say about it now is that there will always be people that love it , and who would deny them the pleasure, and it's good for the economy.

I have been reading about our early beliefs and as mentioned in the article, Christmas was given the date it falls on by Christians. Before that, Christmas, Easter and many other days we celebrate now were our original celebrations before the Romans converted us to christianity.
I personally, still celebrate the TRUE british way even though they fall on the new christian relegion.

The usual stuff in here about Christmas and christians. Christmas is not simply an alternative name for a celebration of the solstice, or anything else. It is a specific christian festival. It's timing in the modern calendar probably was an attempt to deflect attention from pagan rituals, but the festival itself (and the name) are entirely christian. Plus, of course, no day of Christmas falls on the solstice.