Christmas is a pagen holiday why do Christians claim its religious.
For the Christians, the most important day of the year is Christmas in which supposedly they celebrate the birth of Jesus. Worldwide, hundreds of thousands of people celebrate this religious holiday. The irony of Christmas is that its origins are actually pagan, and completely antithetical to Jesus who deplored pagan practises.
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Jesus was not born in the winter. December was actually the time in which the pagans used to celebrate Saturnalia in honor of the pagan god Saturn. Christians adopted the pagan German holiday of Yule which took place on December 25th. "Yule" and "Yuletide" are the archaic terms for Christmas, and this is the meaning of "Yule" in both the full Oxford English Dictionary and the Concise Oxford Dictionary. In many foreign languages, people still use the word "Yule" as opposed to Christmas.
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The ritual of decorating one's house with a Christmas tree is also from pagan origins.
2006-08-13
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