FIVE per cent of the people in Scotland attended church on Christmas Day, a new survey suggests. Asked about how they spent Christmas day, 83 per cent of the 1254 respondents said that they saw family. “I was wondering if, with people bombarded with Christmas adverts, churches should begin addressing Christmas earlier, even outside Advent, but it seems not,” Dr Tweedie said. While most people said that they felt happy (68 per cent) and grateful (55 per cent) at Christmas, 43 per cent said that they felt stressed, and 29 per cent felt anxious. In post-Reformation Scotland, Christmas was effectively “banned”.