“I don’t know why so many people get so bent out of shape at this time every year. I thought we were supposed to be merry.”“Ah, yes, you speak of the Christmas holiday. According to History.com, it is ‘both a sacred religious holiday and a worldwide cultural and commercial phenomenon.’”“I thought it was the day we celebrate the nativity of Jesus Christ?”“It is an important feast or holy day for Christians, who believe, as written in the Bible, that ‘God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him might not perish but may have eternal life.’”“That’s what I believe and the reason I go to Christ’s mass — the origin of ‘Christmas’ — at my Catholic church every year.”“That’s wonderful, but as History.com points out, Christmas traditions have evolved to include many secular and commercial components — some evolved from pagan traditions.”“Pagan traditions?”“Look, long before Jesus was born, December was party time.