christmas is my favorite holiday.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world. A feast central to the Christian liturgical year, it is preceded by the season of Advent or the Nativity Fast and initiates the season of Christmastide, which historically in the West lasts twelve days and culminates on Twelfth Night; in some traditions, Christmastide includes an octave. Christmas Day is a public holiday in many of the world's nations, is celebrated religiously by a majority of Christians, as well as culturally by many non-Christians, and forms an integral part of the holiday season centered around it. The traditional Christmas narrative, the Nativity of Jesus, delineated in the New Testament says that Jesus was born in Bethlehem, in accordance with messianic prophecies. When Joseph and Mary arrived in the city, the inn had no room and so they were offered a stable where the Christ Child was soon born, with angels proclaiming this news to shepherds who then further disseminated the information. Although the month and date of Jesus' birth are unknown, by the early-to-mid fourth century the Western Christian Church had placed Christmas on December 25, a date that was later adopted in the East.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Christmas is my favorite holiday, I'm so glad billions of people around the world get to celebrate it too."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Are you sure that billions of people do celebrate it? I'm not sure that in Asian countries, this holiday is very popular"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Well it is celebrated by many non-Christians as well as a majority of Christians. Consider all the Christians in Europe as well."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That's true, in South America as well.  It's just that almost half of the world's population is in China and India where I have doubt about the popularity of Christmas"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "That's a good point, but there are Christians where you do not expect it, for instance Christians now make up 10-15% of the Middle Eastern population"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Wow, I didn't know that.  I hope that their government let them celebrate this special holiday in peace.  In some of these countries, the religious police can be quite oppressive"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "That's very true, in places like Saudi Arabia they have what is considered the worst of the wrost conditions for political and civil rights."}, {"role": "user", "content": "There is a Canadian blogger, Raif Badawi that has been convicted to ten years in jail plus 1000 lashes only for expressing his thoughts online in Saudi Arabia"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It's terrible, and the punishment was carried out over 20 weeks no less."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Hopefully, the canadian government will manage to get him free before he has to spend 10 years in jail"}]