You make a compelling case. I'm sure that those holidays would still exist, given their astronomical importance to humanity's history. They'd just have the xtian façade stripped away.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
