I am not quite getting this thread.

Everyone is entitled to celebrate Christmas any way he or she wants. In the USA it is both a secular and a religious holiday.

For many years when our kids were too old to believe in Santa, we would have a big dinner and arty on the 24th, go to midnight mass, and then come home and open presents. Then we'd slep in on Christmas day and do something that afternoon....usuallly involving going to see a movie.

So I guess we combined both the religious and secular aspects of it.

Saying an athiest cannot commemorate Christmas in some way is like saying a white person should not take off of work on MLK Day.