I've never watched it all the way through, but something tells me it's not about Christ's birth.
Actually, if you ever *had* watched it all the way through, you would have discovered that it *was* about Christ's birth, as being the most important part. It was only near the end of the show, when Linus recited the passages from the Gospel of Luke, that the religious theme was struck, but when Schultz struck it, he struck it fulsomely, like a Chinese gong...
the infowarrior