Merry Christmas?

D&C 20:1 "one thousand eight hundred and thirty years since the coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in the flesh...on the sixth day of the month which is called April."


On my mission I ran into many evangelicals who spoke badly of the Church because we celebrated Christmas.  They believed it was a Catholic holiday and thus a grievous sin to celebrate because nobody actually knows when Christ was born.  I usually countered with something like, "is it not a good thing to celebrate Christ's birth? I wish that all days were Christmas, but sadly mankind only agrees to remember his birth once a year."  (To me it was always a great sign of the hypocrisy of Satan, to one people he will tell them one thing and to the other he will tell them something else.  In other words, in the US Mormons are often accused as being too strict and with too many rules, while in Latin America we are accused of being too liberal and worldly.) 
Returning to the subject at hand, I recently realized how great it is that even though the Church has reason to believe Christ was born on the 6th of April and yet we still celebrate Christmas on December 25th.  This completely nullifies those evangelicals' entire argument, since their main disclaimer was that nobody could know what day Christ was born and thus we shouldn't celebrate Christmas.  The fact that we still celebrate Christmas on the 25th shows that the date really doesn't matter but that what matters is that the whole world is unified in remembering Christ's birth.  If we wanted to join those evangelicals' harsh mentality we could start celebrating Christmas on April 6th and call all those that celebrate it on the 25th sinners like they do. But that would completely ruin the spirit and purpose of Christmas.  Needless to say, good thing I only spent one Christmas in Guatemala because it was hard to hear all of these Christians ridiculing those that celebrate Christmas for the right reasons.


*For further LDS perspective on why we celebrate the 25th of December and not April 6th see:
http://lds.org/liahona/1998/12/i-have-a-question/i-have-a-question?lang=eng&query=april+6th+birth+christ