You do know that Saint Nicolaus was a Turkish saint, right?
In Sweden, which had a State Church up until the year 2000 (and most people are still tax-paying members of the Swedish Church even though few really believe), it's called Jul, not Christmas. We say "God Jul", and "god" in Swedish means "good". (Our word for god is "gud".)
We can't turn Christmas INTO something pagan and secular, as that is where it started, nitwit. It was the Christians who turned the Winter Solstice festival into a Christian holiday.
We have the "jultomte" bringing us gifts. He's a larger version of the gnome, and a more recent cousin to the Yule Goat.
You'd like parts of Germany* better; they have the Christkindl bringing them gifts.
* and apparently half of Europe and other parts of the world as well: "Austria, Switzerland, Germany, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Portugal, Slovakia, Hungary, France, Upper-Silesia in Poland, parts of Hispanic America, in certain areas of southern Brazil and in the Acadiana region of Louisiana"
From Wikipedia.
