Spurgeon on Christmas

There is no reason upon earth beyond that of church custom, why the 25th of December should be regarded as the birthday of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, any more than any other day from the first of January to the last day of the year; and yet some people regard Christmas with far deeper reverence than the Lord's-day. You will often hear it asserted that, "The Bible and the Bible alone is the religion of Protestants," but it is not so. There are Protestants who have absorbed a great deal beside the Bible into their religion, and among other things they have accepted the authority of what they call "the Church," and by that door all sorts of superstitions have entered. There is no authority whatever in the Word of God for the keeping of Christmas at all, and no reason for keeping it just now, except that the most superstitious section of Christendom has made a rule that December 25th shall be observed as the birthday of the Lord, and the church by law established in this land has agreed to follow in the same track. You are under no bondage whatever to regard the regulation. We owe no allegiance to the church powers which have made a decree on this matter.