Christmas Was Not Originally A Christian Holiday
Did you know that a pagan winter festival was traditionally the most popular festival of the year in many cultures long before Jesus ever came to this earth?Did you know that December 25th was celebrated as the "birthday" of pagan gods such as Mithras and Sol long before it became Christianized?
Did you know that Jesus WAS NOT born on December 25th?
One of the pagan pre-Christian festivals was called Saturnalia.
It was a holiday when the Romans commemorated the dedication of the temple of their god Saturn, which was on the 17th of December and the festival would last for a whole week until the 23rd of December.
Later the Romans also started holding a festival on December 25 called Dies Natalis Solis Invicti, which means "the birthday of the undefeated sun."
Pagan Scandinavia also celebrated a winter festival called Yule, which was held from late December to early January. Yule logs were lit to honor the god "Thor". The holiday would continue until the Yule log burned out, which could take as many as twelve days. Thus this is where we get the "12 days of Christmas".
In the year 350 A.D., Pope Julius I declared that "Christ’s birth" would be celebrated on December 25th from then on.
His rationale was that he was trying to make it easier for pagan Romans to convert to Christianity.
But Jesus was not born on December 25th.
It would have been way too cold for shepherds to be out with their sheep at night during that time.
Jesus was actually born during the Feast of Tabernacles.
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37 Responses to "Christmas Was Not Originally A Christian Holiday"
true sign of the end of days.
True Christians shouldn't celebrate these holidays, they hold no truth. Christianity has unfortunately been bastardized by Christendom through Satan's attempts to turn man's eyes from Jehovah. Jesus Christ is our king, but he is not God. It's all quite clever, really. What could be more sneaky than turning man from Jehovah by getting him to worship his son?
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And the whole Yule tie-in? It's as unlikely that the Bishop of Rome would have given much thought to the celebration dates of pagans in the far north who had little to do with Rome. It would be like the President of the United States asking the Inuit when the federal election should be held.
He was a healthy boy, showing no complications, despite the insalubrious nature of his birth.
(We think his early exposure to bacteria, farm animals and foreigners reinforced his immune system.)
He grew up to be an average child,
not talented for carpentry, with a pronounced attitude problem.
He has parental issues, thinking his father is not his real father.
We are worried about Jesus' involvement in local gangs - specifically the "Disciples" gang he hangs with, that seem hellbent on challenging the authority of Roman law and the local sheriff.
In conclusion, although Jesus is a good boy, we worry he might be led astray by unsavoury elements in the Galileen gang, that might lead him to serious judicial problems.
Yours,
Ponty Pilay,
Youth Rehabilitation Officer,
Bethleem.
"one of a people or community observing a polytheistic (multiple gods) religion, as the ancient Romans and Greeks."
The word of God was sent down to Jesus - Jesus was a messenger of God. Read the Old Testament - find me one line where Jesus said he was God or that he was the son of God. Jesus never claimed to be God - his message was changed. He told people to be "Christ-like" not to worship Christ.
"Christians" changed the word of God - not only did they pray to God, but they took Jesus as their lord and then added the Holy Ghost to make an unexplainable, Divne Trinity. That is three - not one, but three. Three gods = polytheism = paganism.
It is not surprise that they celebrate pagan holidays - the whole concept of Christianity is based on paganism (i.e. praying to multiple Gods through various rituals, and idolatry (the cross) and images of Jesus and Mary.)
FYI - The symbol of the Cross comes from the original Zodiac Calendar - it was derived from the cross in the middle of the circular image of the calendar.
It all links back to ancient pagan rituals.
There is only ONE GOD, Jesus is not the Lord - Jesus was the messenger of the Lord, as was Abraham, Noah, Solomon, David, Moses etc.
You are wrong.
There are as many Gods as there are humans.
We all carry the seeds of creation inside us ( our DNA ).We are all Gods.
The concept of "One God" is imposible.
Your argument is silly, at best. To be really nitpicky, you would have to ammend your 'correction' to: "Christmas used to be called something else, but the early church subjegated most of the practices into 'Christmas'".
So, before someone called walking really fast "running" everyone in creation maxed out a trot? No...they ran, just because someone hadn't called it that yet does not change the underlying actions.
My family has a monthly tradition. We have no name for this, so obviously there is no tradition. And if next month, we decide to call it "Family Night" then we never, ever got together as a family for an evening before that moment that I came up with the term?
I could call your argument "arguing symantics" but I think that is even being a little too generous.
So, to clarify this for the author...before Pope X said "Christmas" there was no annual wintertime celebration, at the end of December that had trappings like a decorated evergreen tree, mistletoe, stockings, fat faries (was he a "saint" at this point or not? can't remember when the word "saint" was coined...) delivering presents around the world...
So, before someone called walking really fast "running" everyone in creation maxed out a trot?
No, before someone called walking really fast "running" there was a different word for it.
So, before someone called Dec. 25th "Christmas" everyone in creation thought there was no holiday?
No, before someone called Dec. 25th "Christmas" everyone in the Roman empire celebrated Dies Natalis Solis Invicti
Before there was Christmas there was Dies Natalis Solis Invicti.
Here are some points for you.
1. Christmas is a Christian holiday.
2. Before Christmas was Dies Natalis Solis Invicti, which was not Christian.
3. The Pope started Christmas as a Christian holiday.
4. If someone starts something as a Christian holiday, it is impossible for it to have ever been not a Christian holiday.
And even though you are whining about my fix for the title, the title that I came up with is 100% more accurate than the title used.
Though the holiday before Christmas was not Christian, Christmas has always been a Christian holiday.
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2. Your "it would be too cold" theory doesn't really work - Jesus was born in the MIDDLE EAST.
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