Catholic Answers is proud to present a very pagan Christmas with Jimmy Aiken.

Hello and welcome to focus the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding, and defending

your Catholic faith. I'm Psykel at your host, and that's how I feel. Every Christmas. We got to

defend Christmas against the accusation that it was all stolen from paganism. Again, we got to

do this. Yes, we do. And we have a lot of fun doing that with Jimmy Aiken in this week's

episode. Here's what Jimmy had to say.

Jimmy Aiken's senior apologist at Catholic Answers. Thanks for being with us.

My pleasure. So I tell it host of Catholic Answers live and Catholic Answers focus.

Oh, that's right. And you, the host of Jimmy Aiken's mysterious world.

Yeah. Which I hope you will continue to do because it's going to be weird if somebody else has

to host it. I plan to continue with Don Michael host. Very good. All right. Okay. So one of the

things that we run up against at this time of year is media reports and other places. I mean,

we had a kid who called the other day his school teacher brought this up in class. This idea that

Christian's kind of stole a lot of pagan stuff and assembled it into our Christmas celebrations.

That's what Christmas is really a pagan thing that we've adapted. Yeah. Make sure you make

sure you want to spit, doesn't it? Wait, why now? Why would you? Like you've heard this saying,

I'm so mad I could spit. Yes. Well, I get mad and frustrated when I hear nonsense like this.

Yeah. Okay. I'm glad to hear you say it's nonsense. And we'll have it. And I'm glad we have

this opportunity to talk with you because I want to do some specific ones. Okay. But also just the

general idea here. Well, maybe by the end, we'll just talk about the reasoning that's being used

here. It's rooted in fall kind of fallacies itself. This whole approach to Christian holidays.

All right. So Christmas, I think people like doing it because they feel transgressive.

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