text: Depends who you ask. "The Reason For the Season" people will tell you that Christmas is about the birth of Christ, period. It's blasphemy to think otherwise. Of course, any good pagan will tell of Saturnalia and the feast of the pagans. The Christians, while conquering the world and stamping out other religions, pretty much claimed to have originated those well-known holidays or celebrations. Except early on when they were forbidden by The Church.