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http://www.ucg.org/the-good-news/christians-who-dont-celebrate-christmas-heres-why
Why do some Christians not celebrate Christmas?
Here are the reasons some gave for kicking the
Christmas habit.


http://www.gotquestions.org/Christian-Christmas.html
Should Christians celebrate Christmas?


http://www.letgodbetrue.com/bible/holidays/christmas.php
120 Reasons Against Christmas
We Don’t Celebrate Christmas Because . . .
. . . the LORD condemns using pagan religious
practices in His worship (Deut 12:29-31).
...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/12/23/war-on-christmas-trump-puritans-christians/

It was in the 1600s, and it was waged by
Christians — specifically Puritans — who hated
the Dec. 25 observance of Jesus’ birth so much
that they made it illegal in the Massachusetts
colony for decades.

To understand why, first we have to establish
how Christmas was celebrated back then. It was
not a holiday to visit family and exchange
gifts. There was no Santa Claus or reindeer or
special attention given to kids. There wasn’t
even a candlelight church service of lessons
and carols like many Christians attend today.

Christmas in the England the Puritans were
escaping was essentially a drunken riot.

Here’s how it generally went down, according
to Stephen Nissenbaum in his book “The Battle
for Christmas.” On Christmas Day, the lower
classes would dress up in strange costumes
to “invert” their roles: Men would dress up
as women, young boys as bishops, and the
lowliest peasant or the town drunk might be
declared the “Lord of Misrule.”

They would gather into a mob and go around to
the houses and estates of the well-to-do,
making a racket, singing bawdy songs and
demanding entry. Amazingly, most of the time
they were let in and given alcohol, food and
even money. There was gambling and promiscuity
(often leading to marriages at the end of the
misrule). Once the mob was satisfied, it would
move on to the next rich person’s estate.

These mobs would generally roam until
Epiphany — Jan. 6 — hence, “the twelve days
of Christmas.” But some places, the mobs
would carry on until February.

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