text: Christmas is just the modern western hemisphere's iteration of winter festivals the world over that celebrate the end of the darkest days of the year and return of the light. They've been going on in some shape or form many centuries before any of the Abrahamic  faiths were conceived. You don't need to be a Christian or believe in any gods to celebrate the passage of time, the circle of  birth life and death and the human experience with close family and friends.