# What is the meaning of Christmas?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-meaning-of-christmas/607340>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 25, 2011, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-meaning-of-christmas/607340 "2011-12-25T04:55:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2011, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-meaning-of-christmas/607340/21 "2011-12-26T03:04:46Z")

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> [@Raguleader](#):
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> I have nothing to contribute, except to say that hey, I learned a new thing today! I hadn’t heard of Michaelmas before, but I should totally throw a party for it next year.😃

Harrumph. They stole that one from us\* pagans, too.

\*Please note: I know ancient paganism has very, very little, if anything, to do with paganism as practiced today. I use “us” tongue-in-cheek. 😉

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