Reply #10: You are right: The old holidays were hijacked by christers

[Ezlivin]

Death by assimilation. Fertility festivals become Easter. Winter Solstice celebration becomes Christ's Mass.

However, Jesus was not born. He was the amalgam of many messianic figures that roved the countryside at the time. That's why you don't have a reference to him by anybody outside the circle of believers; no secular historian mentions Jesus of the NT. (Josephus does, but scholars acknowledge it was a later addition by an unknown hand.)