Since declaring myself an existentialist atheist, I have became aware of the weird annual discussion among atheists about how they should celebrate Christmas.
Oh, no, they don't call it Christmas. They talk about celebrating the solstice. Or perhaps the new year. Or simply the holiday season. It's all so generic that it really doesn't matter. And it's all pagan in origin, right? Co-opted by the Christians.
Why do some people have the need to veil their celebrations in politically correct talk. I admit to having a fetish for blinky lights and cheesy Xmas music.

Some of my friends give solstice gifts and say approving things about pre-Christian, pagan festivals. Some of them speak fondly of Wicca (a new, fake-old religion that manages to be even sillier than Christianity and Judaism). Since all of these things are not Christianity, they are able to pretend that none of these things are religious.

What I find Atheists and Agnostics seem unwilling to ask is not how they can celebrate Christmas without having it look as though they're celebrating Christmas but why they should even try - indeed, why they should even want to try.