8-) Christmas (the date 25 december) was a peagan fest before the Church decided it would be better to replace it with a random event, they trew the darts, and picked the birth of Christ. So there's no reason at all the be [developmentally delayed] there. Anywho, as for Santa: Santa Claus comes from the European Sint Niklaas, which was altered when all the europeans went to America for various reasons. (famine, religious stuffies, ect..), they messed up the date abit, and blam, now you have a fat green skinny dude to give kids presents. But luckily enough there's Coca Cola, who makes Santa in the big fat red dude, that everybody loves now. I believe the tree comes from the peagan (is that spelled right :x) fest, they used to burn wooden trees and shapes to honour some [ god/day/not 100% sure and to lazy to search it :oops: ].