While in the organization we learned one bit of truth regarding Christmas; that it was originally a pagan observance, the summer solstice, adopted by Christians much later in Church history, and has nothing to do with Jesus Christ whatsoever. No biggy for most true believers who left the organization who have slipped into (or fell back into) the grind of commercialized Christmas with all the trappings and traditions of ritual binge spending that takes them even farther away from Jesus than Christmas' pagan roots ever could. These true believers might say something like, "I know xmas has its roots in paganism, but we celebrate anyway because of x y z", perhaps echoing or paroting the frustrating responses we use to hear from "worldly" goats/folks when we would explain to them how Christmas is not a Christian observance whatsoever. I'd love to hear from true believers and learn more about their rationale for either celebrating or not celebrating now that they are free to do as they choose.
Are you an atheist or agnostic? What are your perspectives about Christmas? Do you celebrate now simply because you are allowed to or does your non-belief in a diety and a savior cause you to eschew the observance for new or different reasons altogether?
As for me? I would like to see the actual Summer Solstice observance come back strong and true, not cloaked in Christianity. Until then, we have Burning Man. ;)