iac: There’s nothing disparaging about not knowing every goyishe holiday’s origins. Do you think the rabbonim who disagreed with Rav Elyashiv about sheitels disparaged him when they claimed he misunderstood the origin of Indian hair?
ubiq: That quote is from apy, not akuperma. (And apy is wrong; he doesn’t even want to ask a shaila.) Furthermore, giving Christmas presents on Christmas is wrong. Are you okay with putting the Christmas gifts in red stockings too? After all, that isn’t the “ikkur” of celebrating Christmas either. Are you okay with giving your own kids Christmas presents? Or attending a corporate Christmas party? Putting up a Christmas tree? All that, too, have little to do with “celebrating Christmas”, as you put it. So start decorating your house with cute colorful blinking lights. You’ll make a “Kiddush Hashem” (sic) showing the non-Jewish neighbors how much you respect other’s holidays in our multi-cultural environment.