I also challenge people who reject God and especially those who do not need to be saved from death for all eternity to stop any observation of Xmas whatsoever.
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Why are using Xmas instead of Christmas? Seems at odds with your thesis.
Why “Xmas”? Because if you closely research the accounts in the Gospels, there is no Christ in December 25. The weight of the evidence is extremely strong for Jesus having been born either on the Feast of Trumpets or some other day related to the Feast of Tabernacles.
There is very little evidence that Jesus was born on December 25. Where people raise it, they never give any due consideration to His birth during the Holy Days in the Fall. And they never give any weight to how December 25 falls suspiciously close to the winter solstice. In short, what I see are very strained attempts to justify observing something that they just really want to observe for other reasons.
Then there is the issue of the vast number of opportunities that the text of the New Testament gives to mention how to celebrate the birth of Our Lord, but there is not a single passage. The early Church did not observe it.
For my part, I am trying to observe the faith that was “once delivered” without adding to it or detracting from it. I am no more interested in what new thing some “early church father” may have added hundreds of years after Jesus conveyed the body of knowledge to His Disciples than I am interested in what Justice Ginsburg may have added to the Constitution hundreds of years after it was debated and ratified.
I don’t fault people for liking Xmas. There is a lot of family and personal focus on it. It takes a lot of courage to break from that sufficiently to fully evaluate all the evidence. But as Jesus said, the truth will set you free.