If Christmas was pagan, would it matter?

[Bill_II]

@Shawn_Murphy

Instead of celebrating Christmas at the beginning of the month of December, he moved the celebration to be coincidental to the pagan winter solstice celebration dedicated to sol invictus

@Shawn_Murphy You might want to take a look at this thread

Christmas day and the pagan "Sol Invictus"

It is very often claimed that the Christians co-opted the pagan Roman holiday “Sol Invictus” (unconquered sun), celebrated on December 25, as the birthday of Jesus. (It seemed to make sense–the pagans were celebrating anyway, and probably wouldn’t notice any change, right?) But there is no documentary evidence that this was the case. What happened is this: the Church first established the Feast of the Annunciation/Conception of Jesus as March 25. When the Church became interested in setting a da…

Jonathan posted a link to an post that pretty clearly takes that myth apart. Christmas was already established before the celebration of sol Invictus.