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Make Christmas Great Again

KAM

on Dec. 24, 2018

It annoys me when people try to downplay Christmas to boost other winter holidays up.

Christmas earned it's position as the big winter holiday. Hannakah was a minor Jewish holiday that became well-known because it was near Christmas. Solstice was pretty much a dead holiday, until people with a grudge against Christianity decided to revive it. Kwanza and Agnostica were created in response to Christmas. Ramadan only started being hyped in America during the Gulf War for political reasons.

Without Christmas, New Year's would probably be the biggest winter holiday, but I doubt it would be as big as Christmas is. You want "your" holiday under the winter holiday tent, fine, but Christmas is the tentpole, so don't knock it down.