Happy Winter Solstice and/or Yule!

So the wacky-doo Christian Right wants to stop the secularization of Christmas? They stole it from the pagans! And today is the real deal–the shortest day of the year, the official beginning of winter, which is all based on actual events (the earth turning on an angle away from the sun) not some arbitrary date made up centuries ago and which isn’t even in the Bible. Fortunately, you can keep most of your Christmas goodies and still celebrate the Solstice/Yule–these include wreaths on the door, a decorated tree, candles, even dressing up like Santa Claus (or Old Man Winter).
If you really want to get serious, here are instructions for a Roman Saturnalia, though getting a CEO to sit down with the peasant underclass may be difficult.
You may also want to make some cider for Wassailing about, perform a mummer play, or kiss under the mistletoe.
Meanwhile, the Christians did invent the folk art of Nativity Scenes (Alaskan, Lego, action figure, and dioramic) so we’ll give ’em that.