jaden kendam
Ontological Empiricism
I've never really heard or seen a Pagan say that Christians "stole their holiday". I've only seen non-Christians point out that Christmas isn't original, that most of the holiday practices originate from Pagan holidays, and that the only reason Christmas is celebrated on the 25th was the Church's way to draw people to Christianity...away from celebrating the birth of Mithra, I think, like you said?
You will see it on various pagan pages or in the case of Gaia in the MR and SNF. Granted, the person that was saying it the most this month and the last month is someone who takes everything out of context and consistently lies about paganism and Christianity, but it when it takes up a good chunk of a thread and not supported by anything but a hatred for knowledge, then it is a problem. Most of the pagans in MR would ignore that of course as they have grown tired of debunking it. Anti-religious atheists would jump on the band wagon as anything that attacks Christianity, whether wrong or severly misinformed, is okay with them. Not all anti-religious atheists are like that, but some of the main ones in pagan web sites and on Gaia do just that.
There is a person on those MR and SNF forums that is spreading propaganda out his wazoo.
