Christmas is great for material gain, I find it hilarious though that many Christian churches celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ at the complete wrong time of year. Historical sources show that Jesus of Nazareth was in fact born in Mid-Summer. The first official Christian church moved the date to replace a 'Pagan' Ancient Roman holiday. So merry Spendacraptonofcashmas
It doesn't matter because we celebrate it like it IS, it'd be nice to know the exact time but we don't.
A lot of people make a big issue about Christmas and the factual day of Jesus birth. Sometimes I get the impression that people who do this simply have an ax to grind and so cling onto this as just one more thing they can grind on. I think if they really stepped back from any emotional point of view that they would conclude that this issue is not a real problem for modern Christians. I fully understand the mixing of paganism into Christianity and it doesn't bother me in the slightest. Most symbols of Christianity came out of marrying them to pagan symbols. The first 3 centuries Christianity was an illegal religion. It didn't consistently cost you your life. Some Emperors were better than others. But Caesars Diocletian and Marcus Aurelius were absolutely brutal. In a state where your faith is outlawed, you found ways to hide your faith from the state but not from those who were of the same faith. This is how the Mariners Cross (combination of the cross and the anchor) came into being. Out of necessity, Christianity married symbols together, so after hundreds of years of mixing in pagan traditions, it should be no wonder the Church was comfortable with doing it when it wasn't so costly to be Christian.