Christian activist and actor Kirk Cameron's new film 'Saving Christmas' is in theaters now and the star opened up to BREATHEcast about his film and the controversy surrounding the true meaning of the Christmas tree.

"I love Christmas, I'm a Christian and I love Christmas," Cameron said in part 1 of his interview with BREATHEcast. The actor also likened the association of Christmas being an evil pagan practice to Chinese food being evil because it represents the eastern philosophy of Ying and Yang.

"Some people would say well the pagans did that. They cut down a tree and dance around it and decorate it with all kinds of stuff as a pagan ritual," the 'Fireproof' star said of Christians and the practice of adorning a tree to celebrate the birth of Christ, "Again just like Chinese food I can say... 'who cares what the pagans did with a tree'? Look what they did with noodles, look what they do with music and art."

Cameron undoubtedly maintains that everything involved with the Christmas celebration is paying homage to the birth of Jesus, Santa Claus, the carols, and the tree. "They can steal God's things and twist them as much as they want but that doesn't change what Christmas is about," he declared.

"It's not sinful to have a Christmas tree," the father of six continued, "While Christmas trees are not in the Bible per-say you do find God making trees, you find God filling trees with fruit in the book of Genesis, you even find him putting lights on the branches of an almond tree and turning it into a lamp stand in the tabernacle and he gives gifts to his children at the base of trees."

Many in the Christian faith have long debated the Western tradition of putting up a Christmas tree because of its ties with paganism. Pagan cultures reportedly used to cut boughs of evergreen trees in December, move them into the home or temple, and decorate them to celebrate winter solstice. The Roman pagans used trees to honor a fertility god using its image to represent the phallic symbol in which fertility is consummated. Regardless of the historical facts Cameron assures that using a Christmas tree to celebrate faith started in the Bible.

"When Abraham received the promise of his son at the oaks of mamre," he noted, "Cedars of Lebanon are highlighted in Scripture and Jesus was crucified on a tree and we always say nothing but the blood of Jesus. Where do we find it? At the base of the cross. Gift giving, tree decorating, and singing songs are all things that are ultimately based and rooted in the scriptures."

The argument of the Bible scriptures found in Jeremiah 10 against adorning trees in your homes like pagans do, the actor says does not apply to Christmas trees.

"How can that be a Christmas tree when Christ hadn't even come yet?" he asked, "These are pagan cultures who decorate trees that way but remember they also decorate stone figures that way. They made golden calves and danced around those, does that mean you and I shouldn't eat a hamburger? Does that mean that you and I shouldn't have Chinese food or that we shouldn't have babies because they perverted children and used them in sacrificial worship services?"

"No...," he answered his own question, then proceeded to explain his position, "What God is saying there, don't celebrate the false Gods and join in the pagan rituals of the pagans, but that's not what we're doing. We're taking trees that God made and hero's of the faith that God created and we're bringing them in to our celebration of Christ, and by the way God adorned his temple with silver and gold and he frescoed the walls of the temple with trees."

The very passionate 'Growing Pains' star said the pagans "don't get to say that they own anything, ultimately they have to steal Gods things before they can claim ownership to it."

The film 'Saving Christmas' is Cameron's way of saving the holiday for the Christian skeptics. The film features Cameron and his brother-in-law who oppose the traditions of the holiday and simply want to celebrate the savior's birth without the distractions of everything else. Cameron says the character was "ruining Christmas for his wife, he's scrooge, he simply was listening to the wrong people," he asserted, "his intentions were good because he wants it to be about Jesus but he was just looking at it wrong so I had to come help him out, that's all."

'Saving Christmas' is in theaters now for two weeks only; to get tickets to see Cameron's take on Christmas visit www.savingchristmas.com. Watch the trailer below: