History Main / EveryoneIsChristianAtChristmas

* Invoked in the third of Rebecca Rubin's books in ''Literature/AmericanGirl'', ''Candleight for Rebecca.'' Rebecca, who is openly Jewish, feels pressured to participate when her teacher Mrs. Maloney announces that the students will be making a Christmas decoration to take home. She and almost all the other Jewish children in class just go along with it rather than risk being publicly shamed. One of her friends, Rose, speaks up but is shot down same as Rebecca--Mrs. Maloney says that Christmas is an "American holiday" and thus for everyone. Rebecca is concerned that her family will be angry and ashamed of her for making a Christmas decoration (especially after her mother scolds her older sisters for singing Christmas carols and wearing festive red and green ribbons, reminding them that they aren't Christian and ''don't'' celebrate the holiday.) She shamefully brings the decoration home (unlike Rose who completes the project, but throws her decoration away when they bring them home), but her grandmother is pleased that Rebecca obeyed her teacher ''and'' created something beautiful in the process. Rebecca ends up giving the decoration to a Christian resident of their tenement building as a gift.

* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'': Downplayed, but Ziva, Jewish and a BadassIsraeli, embraces the Christmas traditions of her American colleagues. This seems to be more about embracing her new culture in general rather than religion, as she also celebrates Thanksgiving with the team. In season 6, she happily joins in as Tony screens "Its a Wonderful Life" in MTAC; in season 7, she helps Tony with his Secret Santa gift when he draws a coworker in another department who dislikes him; and in season 10, when Tony's father comes to spend the holidays with him and gifts her with homemade cookies, she enthusiastically thanks him and tells him that although she doesn't celebrate Christmas, she enjoys the festivities that accompany the season.

* WebOriginal/FortniteLoreSociety: On December 25, the server discussed Christianity and had a serious discussion on religion and God.

-->. Well. At Christmas my parents take me to the toy warehouse they own. We look at all the empty shelves. Then we go to the airport and fly to Spain for a week.

* Spoofed with in ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'''s sixth volume, "A Dancing Very Merry Christmas," where Christmas is less the holiday of Christ than it is the holiday of [[Film/DieHard John McClane]]. It's also noted that Sousuke, having been raised Muslim, is only passingly familiar with the holiday and only comes to assign any significance to it at all because [[SignificantBirthdate Kaname was born on Christmas Eve]].

** Then there's "O Holy Night", which has music written by a Jewish composer (Adolphe Adam), original French lyrics written by an atheist (Placide Cappeau), and English lyrics written by a Unitarian minister (John Sullivan Dwight).

** Then there's "O Holy Night", which had a Jewish composer (Adolphe Adam), an atheist who wrote the original French lyrics (Placide Cappeau), and a Unitarian minister who wrote the English lyrics (John Sullivan Dwight).

This could be justified in that many non-Christians socially celebrate Christmas with friends, despite having no ties to the holiday themselves. (Not to mention the fact that people were throwing pagan midwinter festivals for centuries before Christ's birth and the Church simply fixed the Nativity to that date because those pagan festivities were too popular to simply ignore or suppress.)

* And in the [[Film/BlackChristmas2019 2019 film]], Fran mentions that she's Jewish but still wishes Riley a Merry Christmas.

* ''Website/CollegeHumor'': Lampshaded in "The Six Christmas Movies You Live Through", which points out how many popular children's cartoon characters celebrate Christmas, including [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Pikachu]].

* On ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', the cast are all lamenting the fact that Santa isn't coming, when [[TheHero Phineas]] asks [[TheChick Isabella]] if there's a special Christmas gift she's worried about not getting. Despite having participated fully in the ChristmasEpisode so far she admits that her family doesn't celebrate Christmas, so it really doesn't matter to her.

** A religious example would be "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing", set to a movement of Music/FelixMendelssohn's ''Festgesang'' {{cantata}}. Mendelson was a baptized and practicing Lutheran, but also embraced his Jewish ancestry.[[note]]Mendelssohn composed the piece in commemoration of the 400th anniversary of UsefulNotes/JohannesGutenberg's introduction to Europe of movable type.[[/note]]

** On the other hand, even some of the most beloved traditional, religious carols are set to music composed by Jews. Case in point: "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing", set to a movement of Music/FelixMendelssohn's ''Festgesang'' {{cantata}}.[[note]]Mendelssohn composed the piece in commemoration of the 400th anniversary of UsefulNotes/JohannesGutenberg's introduction to Europe of movable type.[[/note]]

[[caption-width-right:350:That's right -- once December rolls around, even Franchise/{{Godzilla}} can't resist joining in the festivities!]]

** Carried over in the third season's "Regional Holiday Music", in which Troy is slated to spend the day with his family that pointedly doesn't observe Christmas. Shirley plans to gift her "persuadable Jewish friends" with a surprise visit from her pastor, but Annie plans to observe her people's custom of spending the day at the movies with her 'bubbie'.

** Notably averted in "Comparative Religion". Fed up with the Dean's pushing an inclusive, nondenominational holiday, Shirley organizes an overtly religious Christmas party - then is surprised to find she's the only Christian in the group. Annie is Jewish, Abed is Muslim, Britta is an atheist, Jeff is agnostic (called "lazy man's atheist"), Pierce is in a New Age cult calling itself Buddhist, and Troy is a Jehovah's Witness (technically Christian but doesn't observe Christmas).

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