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# Yes, a generic term.
The fact wicca is a (laughably) real religion doesn't mean they own the festival they stole from 1600 years before wicca was created.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Fri 2 Dec 2011, 19:27, archived)
# Well I'm not saying I know enough about Wicca to state any such thing
but they do burn the yule log so it's a tradition within their religion although in truth it would appear they are Neo-paganistic rather than some ancient religious that the Christians assimilated as their own. Nobody know enough about traditional pagan religions as mostly they didn't write stuff down but it's clear that Christian used most of pagan belief system to ease the transition from pagan to christian. But Pagan is certainly a generic term so it wrong to attribute anything to them as it's more likely to be bits of one religion and bits of another. Nonethe less I prefer the agrarian based religions as they re based upon nature and seasons rather than some abstract concepts of Heaven and Earth.
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Fri 2 Dec 2011, 19:35, archived)
# To say Christianity "used" pagan beliefs is a bit much,
it's closer to the mark to say they couldn't do anything about it so they let them carry on.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Fri 2 Dec 2011, 19:41, archived)
# They assimulated some aspects of pagan agrarian-based religions
December the 21st is the Winter solstice and has been pre-dating Christianity if is understood that in some quarters that Christians used this date as the birth of Christ when evidence shows Jesus was probably born nearer to March/April time according to the star alignment and the change to the Gregorian calendar. But I'm not going to argue points I don't actually believe in it takes too many presumption on both sides to form an accurate conclusion.
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Fri 2 Dec 2011, 19:47, archived)
# December the 21st is the solstice in actual fact, regardless of religions,
it's an astronomical thing. As mentioned below, however, the date of Christianity is more likely from the Roman festival of the Sol Invictus.

There is, as far as I know, no evidence at all for the date of the birth of Jesus. Christmas wasn't celebrated at all until about the 3rd century because Jews didn't celebrate birthdays. Any attempt to relate the Star of Bethlehem to a real astronomical event is not only highly speculative but highly missing the point.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Fri 2 Dec 2011, 19:52, archived)
# Like I said I know very little of religion I'm not stating anything of any real value other than
there are questions regarding all religions.
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Fri 2 Dec 2011, 19:57, archived)
# More wrong than to assert a religion 60 years old has "traditions".
Or ascribing a tradtion to belongs to a religion that is younger than it by over 1 and a half millenia?
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Fri 2 Dec 2011, 19:42, archived)
# I really am stating nothing I'm an atheist - remember.
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Fri 2 Dec 2011, 19:49, archived)