Winter solstice of course.

Look at black friday. Christmas is Advertising Appreciation Day. Christmas in its entirety should be abolished, both the religious and commercial aspects.

No. Consumers Day.

Thats the purpose of the day isn't it? Getting family and friends together. Only time of the year?

This is why I don't align myself with anti-religion activist groups; they are too often zealots who want to impose their ideology upon others. Isn't that one of the things we oppose from the religious fundamentalists? If the trend is that fewer and fewer young people are treating the holiday as religious, why muck that up by antagonizing the other side and needlessly creating a backlash? I see no value in poking the religious who will use this as a marketing tool to get more people on their side. Just let the religiosity fade organically as the trend suggests is happening.

I don't think a lot of people gave up saying Merry Christmas - counter to Trump's claim, Obama said it at least 17 time (on video - no doubt more in person). I say it if speaking to or answering someone I know to celebrate it, although I use Happy Christmas.

If there are that many upset about leaving out one word, I suspect there would be mobs in the street if we changed the name of the holiday, although it makes sense since we don't all wish one another Happy Hanukkah, and so on through other religions.

Not to sound immensely negative this morning but I really dislike Family Day. Heck, a problem many people have with Christmas is seeing family. Or what about people who don't have families? We already have a Thanksgiving holiday so .... I dunno.

On the other hand, I'm all behind giving everyone off on election day. It would be interesting to see how that impacts the results at the polls.

Christmas is a season, not just a made up birthday, now.

Christmas, Yuletide, Summer Solstice, Winter solstice, call it what you like. In the north it is Mid winter celebration, In the south it is Mid Summer, just an excuse for a big party. All people can join in, don't let one group hiJack it. All names are welcome to me.

I vote for just the removal of holidays. It's mainly just a marketing scheme and a reason to visit family. If you didn't visit the other 364 days why show up now? But that's a long shot too many people are cushy up kn the festivities and drinking.

the day of greed

it's just a word [ that everybody knows the meaning of] and it has very little to do with JC. I'm amazed it hasn't been copyrighted !!

I think people should get holiday days like vacation days, you just get a set amount of them every year to use at your leisure, it would stop a lot of problems

Let the people who want Cristmas call it Christmas. Let the people Showa t to have a family day have a family day just don’t make me say any but what I want to say

Tuesday or Sunday or whichever

Winter bliss

So those without families? Will take a Holiday Off? The Art of "renaming things"... again showing it's Ugly Face.

No. My Christmas looks 99.9 % like any other Christmas and I don’t feel the need to want to change it. I refuse to let pesky Christians rob me around the time of the year where it is supposed to be fun with family and friends just because they wanted to take that fun by slapping their Jesus all over it and claim everything, just like they try to claim everything else and are knocked down with facts.

I'll start by saying this must be considered a hypothetical poll with a goal to create a more perfect society. Having said that my thoughts are since it is already a day with the current purpose to reflect on christian morals. Why don't we just call it "Moral" day. That way the purpose of the day is preserved in a completely inclusive way.

One in five people spend Christmas alone

I'm sure that many people, millennials and others already consider the 25th and 26th December as a cultural holiday. What about those who do not have family? Why not just declare it a national holiday without any particular label attached to it and leave it to people to decide how they wish to celebrate it...

Mmmmm..... I hear you on this. It could catch on. Happy holidays is still gaining ground around here. You talk about an up rising around here from all the Christian churches. There's one on every block. They would team up for once and clobber anyone that got in their way.

Leave it as is! It is really only a religious holiday for some and deeply entrenched in our cultural traditions.