Moderators, please understand that how triggered a couple of people are is not really a reason to remove this post because end of the day, this is pretty important for social dialogue and Christmas is a country-wide thing that is celebrated generally, and it’s an opportunity for people to come together and renew ties - not what the walauns would like to characterize as a racial/religious thing when there are thousands of other ways to interpret it.

Of course there is a religious aspect. 

participated in these traditions across different cultural boundaries,