You know the Fatman Santa is a fake, but you go along with it anyway, as you lie to your kids and make them future liars to their own kids.
But the Dictionary of the Bible says that: "By the 5th. Century, the Church (of Rome) had concerned itself enough to have set December 25 as the date of Jesus’ birth. This had been the date of the Festival of the Sun God Zeus and to the Christians a greater light was come, Jesus Christ, the true light of the World".
The Winter Solstice gives us the shortest day in the year, Dec. 22, as the birth of the new Sun, so Rome shifted it to the 25 December in order to celebrate the Circumcision eight days later, on 1 January, in accepting Jezeus Christos as the Living God risen from the dead.
Is Christimas really just like Santa Claus?
Did Christmas come through the chimney like Santa, with sockloads of toys?
2006-12-03
13:32:06
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