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": "Every December, much of the world celebrates Christmas, which commemorates the birth of Jesus of Nazareth."}, {"role": "user", "content": "LOVE the Christmas season, though I suppose being non-religious I should say, winter holiday season"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes, there are many ways to celebrate it, with or without the religious side. Do you like Christmas carols?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I do. I love to hear the carolers sing and when younger used to carol myself"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Some of the traditional carols come from way back in Roman times. Makes sense, I guess."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes, the celebration of the Winter Solace, or, in bald terms, some celebration to lift spirits in gloomy dull times where everybody was cold and probably hungerier than in the warmer months."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "As a non-religious person, how do you feel about the civil holiday being Christmas day?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I have no problem with that. It's logical, has to be one day or another, and it makes religious folk happy (unless they are Orthodox when it should be Jan 6 or Jewish who don't celebrate it at all)."}]