Our families have always celebrated the season with great camaraderie. There is a fairly significant range of religious/political/ ideologies represented, but we do not allow that to interfere with the gathering and celebration!

Whether or not we have christmas or not; humans living in the north will always have a celebration at that time of year, the darkest days of the year will always be a time for people to get together and drive away the winter blues. People have celebrated this time of year for at least 4 thousand years and all the christians did is steal it and make it theirs.
My favourite thing about christmas is telling christians that I am celebrating the birth of the father of socialism Jesus Christ after all his teaching are the basis of Karl Marx's ideas. You should see how wide their eyes get, it looks like their brains are going to explode.

People are often surprised when I say that I celebrate Christmas with my family. I reply I celebrate the secular "Christmas", where we spend the day together and make memories. My mother goes to Mass, but none of the rest of us do, and that's fine. What DOES annoy the everlovinshit out of me is the "War on Christmas" bullshit. It's doesn't seem very Christian to me to not accept "Happy Holidays" as a good wish from a stranger. And the overcommercialization - how can they even pretend Christmas is about religion anymore is beyond me. AND it needs to not start before Halloween. Drives me nuts.