Atheists & Agnostics

Thanks. I think I've changed my view on it, though--as someone else said, viewing it as religious only gives them the power. If we look at it as secular, even if it's celebrated in association with religion, it removes much of that power, though not entirely. Though I think there is still a religious connection, these types of things are relatively harmless. I will be trying not to let it bother me in the future--it was always a pet peeve of mine.

Agreed about the pagan things, though. I love how much of Christianity is simply borrowed from elsewhere, yet people so desparately want to believe that it was originally Christian. Actually, there isn't much to Christianity if you take out all the pagan rituals, dates, celebrations, myths, etc...