Actually, there is nothing wrong with celebrating Christmas , knowing it comes from pagan origins. IF there is no God.
But, if you DO believe there is a one true creator, and you fear him, hadn''t you ought to find out what he has to say about it?. God has absolutely ntohing against families getting together and having fun. As long as you obey him about not adapting pagan celbrations as your own. And you can type in
"Origins of Christmas" in any search engine and it will come up with dozens of articles admitting the pagan origions of Christmas. I have fond memories of it myself. But, I know that God says not to learn the ways of the pagans. It makes him very angry and he's the same, yesterday, today and forever.
And because I DO fear God, then how he feels about it means more to me then how I use to feel about it.
So, I have the fond memories because I was innocent back then and didn't know. I just did it because my family always had. Most people don't bother to look into why they do what they do. They do what their families always did.
But, it's so easy to look it up in any encyclopedia or websearch .There's absolutely no reason in this computer age to remain ignorant of this.Anyone can look it up themselves
It clearly states in every article that it comes from purely pagan origins and gives the history and how the Catholic church adopted it in order to convert pagans to Christianity.. So it's not really a question of 'Is it really pagan"? anyone can look it up in five minutes and get the answer.
What it does come down to is. "Do you beleive God is the supreme creator? Do you beleive he meant it when he said to not learn the ways of the pagans"? Do you belive that God doesn't change ? Have you looked into it to see in fact if it is Pagan? If so, after doing that ask yourself. Do you want to obey him and give up a practice that always seemed innocent and sweet and in his honor, and gave you alot of good memories and was sooo fun in order to truly obey and serve him? Or do you plan to defy him because it's something you have always done and it seems right, and is fun and therefore you just don't want to give it up even if you DID just learn it's from pagans?.
Do you think God will just "wink" at it because it's so fun for you? Do all your reasons gain any clout with him?
That's what it comes down to. Of course if you don't believe in God or don't fear him, then you have nothing to worry about. For now.
It really only comes down to that, and God gives you a free will to choose. And if the choice is wrong, then each one of us will reap the consequences of our decision..