After reading all four parts of your series here on Christmas, I can tell you that some people don't celebrate the birth of Christ on Christmas. So, what does that mean? In other words, what is Christmas? What is Pagan? These words can take a while to define.

A better question might be how many people emphasize on celebrating the birth of Christ at home on Christmas with their families. A follow-up question might be how many people excessively and aggressively instead overemphasize on Santa, songs about reindeer, gift exchange, etc.

Paganism is very hard to define.

Christmas is very hard to define.

I can talk for days unpacking why I'm making simple statements about things which most people would say are not hard to define.

Long story short and in conclusion, a better question might be which alleged Christmas-related things are too counterproductive to the celebration of the birth of Christ?

Because, long story short and regardless of where different people fall on this debate of "Is Christmas a pagan celebration?" we can or should be able to all agree that Christmas has been conflated and associated with Paganism, etc.

And regardless of whether or not it's correct or incorrect to directly or indirectly correlate and connect Christmas with paganism, Norse god Odin, other things, etc, it is important to see that Satan has the ability to infiltrate and destroy good things from the inside-out.

The Roman Catholic church is an example of that. I'm a Christian but I don't believe in praying to Mary like Catholics are taught to do.

If Christmas is the celebration of Christ, then that is not pagan.

Was Saint Nicholas an evil man? No, I think it was good that he was handing out presents to people. He helped people. So, I wouldn't call Nick a Pagan.

So, I say all of that to say the birth of Christ is not pagan but the improper conflation and association and connection people have made unfairly with Christmas and paganism is pagan or is potentially dangerous within the realm of infiltration and degradation of culture over a series of centuries. Holidays, symbols, traditions, customs, etc, can be co-opt. One example of this is seen with how Billy Graham Crusades were used to convert people not to Christian churches but to Catholicism.