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Perhaps so. Also sorry to be Pedantic but did they cover any Jehovah's Witness beliefs? Because in their view of Holidays I don't believe they do all that to bring in the New Year.
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Studious Girl
Unfortunately that was one we didn't have time for. We did study Hinduism, Buddhism, Siberian Shamanism, Lakota religion, Iroquois religion. Australian Aboriginal religion, Irish Paganism, Yoruba religion (plus Caribbean Santeria, which branches from it), Haitian Voodoo, some religions practiced by people in the Amazon
Jer gets all the girls
Merry Christmas! (It's Christmas Day where I am)
Everybody's all "Jerry's old and feeble" till they see him run down a skyscraper and hijack a helicopter mid-flight.
Merry Christmas
It's Christmas eve here still.
Merry Christmas from an agnostic! I really like this holiday and I hope you all enjoy yourselves!
Studious Girl
The clock just struck midnight. There are church bells ringing all over the place! It feels like my house is shaking! Merry Christmas!!! 
Merry Christmas, I decided to become a Christian again.
Merry Christmas and stuff
I just had my last day of my religion class. It was a great class and I'm so glad I took it. On the last day we all discussed the things we learned and how it changed out views on religion. The class was really diverse. Most were Christian, but came from all sorts of denominations and cultural backgrounds, and there were also some Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, and Buddhist students. On the first day of class we went around and shared the languages we spoke, and the professor wrote them all on the board. The list took up two entire whiteboards (This is an NYC classroom we're talking about). So it was a great group to talk religion with.
One of the major themes was the similarities that different religions had. We studied all sorts of religions, some I had heard of and some I hadn't, and instead of getting lost in the details of the differences (This religion worships in a building that looks like this, their services look like this, and their gods look like this. My religion worships in a building that looks like this, our services look like this, and our God looks like this) we were able to look past aesthetics and see how similar they really were. Every religion had a similar view of the sacred. Their ways of invoking it may look different but the reasoning and theory behind it was nearly identical from culture to culture.
For example, every religion had the same method of commemorating the new year (in Catholicism, that would be Easter) by first having a period of unrest that represented the world before it as put into order by the sacred (Mardi Gras), followed by a period of penance (Lent) and finally a celebration (Easter) Like every last one, from major world religions to lesser known tribal ones did this the same way.
Each religion also had the same ideas about sacred space. There was a method of purification before entering (holy water), some sort of threshold for entry (many examples in Catholicism, genuflecting being one), the creation of some sort of hierophany that brings the sacred into our realm (Communion)
The similarities went on and on and on until they seemed ridiculous. It started to seem like they were all the same religion, just with different aesthetics. Like using a different operating system to get to the same internet. And as a result, I feel more comfortable with Christianity than I used to be. My biggest qualm with being raised religious is that given the thousands of religions that existed in the world, how could I be sure that the one I happened to be born into was correct? I mean there was no way I could know that. But this universality of religion comforted me. Is it possible that one religion isn't strictly right while the others are strictly wrong? Maybe we're all just searching for the same thing, but doing it in different ways.