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 17:48:16 · 9 answers · asked by Jay 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Who cares? Celebrations are fun. They're a chance for families to get together, eat good food, enjoy activities they might not take time for at other times of the year.
Just because one religion or another also celebrates then, doesn't mean a thing.
Everyone experiences the changes in the seasons, Christian or Pagan. Whe should they not both recognize, say, a Spring celebration. Why not something in the middle of winter. Being a Christian doesn't mean that you don't notice the seasons!!
Stop making things so complicated. Lighten up!
2006-08-13 18:09:59 · answer #1 · answered by lottyjoy 6 · 7⤊ 1⤋
Well just like we don't celebrate Lincolns birth on his actual birthdate we don't do the same for Jesus. Its pretty Much observed birthday.
Catholics did it because they wanted to turn pagans to chrisanity and they thought it was easier by turning their festivals to christians ones.
Christmas besides the tree is barely like the old pagan one. Easter (worship of Ishtar) is much more blatant. We should call it Resurrection day and celebrate it when Passover is held.
2006-08-13 17:58:58 · answer #2 · answered by Lupin IV 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Umm, yeah, well there is ALOT more to it than that. And not everyone celebrates the "christmas tradition" as prescribed by the xians. Some of us actually do celebrate the "old way" for the "old reasons" because we know christmas is a (achem) posers holiday.
And we are not all pagans.
2006-08-13 17:58:14 · answer #3 · answered by 0000000 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
In order to better convert the pagans, the Christians turned many of their celebrations and religious practices into "Christian" holidays.
I heard they think Jesus was actually born in March.
2006-08-13 17:55:06 · answer #4 · answered by Phoenix, Wise Guru 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't celebrate Christmas, but what you're saying has always fascinated me especially since, unlike His death that He asked to be commemorated with the wine and bread(blood and body) nobody said pointedly that Christians should celebrate the day he was born. At least I haven't seen where it was said officially.
2006-08-13 17:55:00 · answer #5 · answered by Skitch_™ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christianity borrowed a lot of stuff in order to be popular in its earlier years, and it has thus become tradition. So while it was originally a pagan holiday, now it's a Christian holiday, even if its genesis was somewhat pagan.
2006-08-13 17:51:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Many Christians are aware of this in fact Jesus was born in September but the highest day of Christian calender is Passover not his birth but death and yet another pagan holiday is used for this day (easter) it is insulting this pagan practise was fertility right.
2006-08-13 17:58:58 · answer #7 · answered by jas3tm 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
December 25th was chosen because it is close to the winter solstice. (excuse my spelling). the winter solstice symbolizes a "new light" which is what christ's birth brought to the world>
as for easter, the rabbit is used because it symolizes "rebirth", which is fit, becasue rabbits have alot of offspring during that time. therefore it fits wtih the "resurrection" (rebirth)>
2006-08-13 17:54:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
i do not celebrate holidays, just christmas because that is a celebration of the birth of our saviour, we dont not get into the commercializing of it and do not exchnge gifts, the other is not pagen easter celebrates the ressurection of our lord, and what he did for us. all the other holidays you can have, they have no meaning to me and my family, they are just what you said pagen....it does not matter when for, christmas as long as you are celebrating what it means. no it was not santa clauses birthday.....
2006-08-13 19:19:08 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋