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Originally Posted by SoCalGirl
It's always been Christmas Eve for my family. My dad explained, when I was little, that Santa hits the west coast while everyone's at church and the east coast while everyone's asleep. He claimed that's how his parents explained it to him. Though, when we moved back east for a while we still opened on the 24th.
I never really understood waiting till morning. Jesus was born at NIGHT. So either he was born it the wee hours or late in the evening on the 24th. So you're either opening the presents late or early it you wait till Christmas morning.
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Well, you know...he was actually born sometime in September and the reason Christmas is celebrated in December was to wean the pagans away from their rituals in the winter onto a christian holiday. But now we're getting into silly religious politics and crap.