Christmas–noun 1. the annual festival of the Christian church commemorating the birth of Jesus: celebrated on December 25 and now generally observed as a legal holiday and an occasion for exchanging gifts.
2006-09-04 14:41:04 · 13 answers · asked by tallica1331 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Because it wasn't called that in ancient times.
We know it as Winter Solstice.
2006-09-04 14:44:42 · answer #1 · answered by Helzabet 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Simple, because it was not originally a pagan holiday. It was the Feast of the Nativity in celebration of the birth of Christ, set on a date that coincided with several other religious holidays. Whether the Church placed the feast around the solstice for conversion reasons or not, it has nothing to do with the authenticity of the holiday itself.
It's been widely noted that some of the traditions that developed around this Christian feast have non-Christian religious origins, but again, this doesn't change the actual purpose of the celebration itself.
2006-09-05 21:38:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because it is not a pagan holiday. Now Dec 25 may also be a pagan holiday for various pagan groups, but the celebration that Christians follow is not pagan. There are many days that may have various holidays on the same day according to different faiths
2006-09-04 22:28:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Originally it was a pagan holiday, the tree, the candles-almost all the trimming of Christmas came from pagan practices. The church took it on as it was something the people could relate to, and they threw Jesus in there to add credence to it.
When the word ''Christmas'' was added to the observance, that was from when the dictionary explained it. It was not called Christmas before that.
2006-09-04 21:51:52 · answer #4 · answered by Shossi 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
did you know that christmas is actoly the birthday for the sun god in all of the old religions.
if you want to find out when christ was actualy born you can go to http://www.michaelrood.com/ when you get there you just find out about the origanal hebrew calander. then all you have to do is match the selabrations mentiond in mathew mark luke ect. to the month in the calander. be prepared for a shock and a life altering experiance if you read any of the thing ether advertised or given. this is new stuff and most people dont want to know the truth.
i.e.
did you know that the anchient city of babalon is already rebuilt.
did you know that they found noas ark
did you know that they found the ark of the covonat
did you know that babalon traditions and sun god worship is alive and well today even in the church.
did you know that the halo behind all the saints heads is the sun from sungod worship
did you know that the christmas tree is a symbol of ra's unsercomsised penis
the balls you hang on your tree are ra's testicals
i could go on for a long time but if i didnt scare you away you can email me at qaeritoveritas@yahoo.com
please no hate mail i am only a seeker of truth
http://archives.nd.edu/latgramm.htm#below
quaerito -are [to seek or enquire about eagerly].
veritas -atis f. [the truth , reality; truthfulness, telling of truth]; in gen. [honesty].
now mister fr_chuck do you honestly think that it is mearly coincidence or did you just keep your preconseptions. did you reacherch the customs of the old testament. if you did you would know that the calandar we use is a pagan calandar.
sunday = latin dies solis the day of the sun
monday = latin lunae dies the day of the moon
tuesday = tyr's day the day of tiu druid celtic idol
wednesday = wodens day (a god highly skilled in magic)
thursday = thor's day god of thunder
friday = the fish fry day. the fish is a firtility goddess' simbol she is the wife of woden.
saturday = saturn agraculture
do you worship a holiday or a normal day or do you worship god
dont make yourself graven images or idols
days count if you make them deities so do customs
try studing insted of taking things for granted you never know when you have been mislead
i know things that would curl what hair you have left
2006-09-04 22:05:00 · answer #5 · answered by quaeritoveritas 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The same reason dictionaries don't have proper definitions for Pagan, Witchcraft or Magic.
2006-09-06 19:17:08 · answer #6 · answered by kaplah 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the Winter Solstice celebration that it is fashioned after was a pagan holiday!
2006-09-04 21:47:09 · answer #7 · answered by steve 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Dictionaries are supposed to define words, not necessarily give their history. Usually they do, I suppose, but if someone didn't know what Christmas was and they looked it up in the dictionary, they'd learn the definition that everyone else uses. So it would keep them on the same page as everyone else.
2006-09-04 21:45:35 · answer #8 · answered by sweetheart882001 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Check out an encyclopedia. You will get the history of Christmas there.
2006-09-04 21:43:54 · answer #9 · answered by grammy_of_twins_plus two 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because they people would realise that all christain holidays are originally pagan festivals
interesting huh!
2006-09-04 21:44:05 · answer #10 · answered by Adriel 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Pagan beginnings are irrelevent to present day.
2006-09-04 22:46:39 · answer #11 · answered by ethereality 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋