In the United States of America, where I live, the most popular holiday on the calendar is three days away. The name of this holiday is derived from the phrase "Christ's Mass." This holiday inspires songs with lyrics like "It is the night of our dear Savior's birth/Long lay the world in sin and error pining/'Til He appeared and the soul felt its worth." Millions of people celebrate this holiday by constructing on their property visual representations of the virgin birth of the son of God.
And millions of other people would tell me, with straight faces and apparent sincerity, that this holiday is secular. Some of these people are some combination of lying, insane, and stupid; some are desperately gullible; most are simply confrontation-averse to a fault. Christmas is not, in any way, shape, or form, secular, and it never has been, and it never will be.
