is it true that 25th december is actually a celebration for Roman Sun-God?

Answer 1

It is also the date of birth for Mithras. Thats why early Christians hijacked it as the birthdate of their own false God - to make the religious festivals more attractive to the heathens living around them....

Mithras was also born of a virgin, died and was buried in a rock tomb, and was ressurected after three days. Sound like anyone familiar?

Answer 2

No, actually for Romans it was the celebration of Saturnalia. Which is the celebration of the Winter Solestic.(The shortest day of the year). Also it coincides with the Jewish feast of Hanukka. Another reason is that the star that was so bright over Jesus(which was actually Jupiter, they didn't know about planets back then.) was in a position in the sky that would suggest that the date was December 25th or around there. I hope this helps. Take care. Check out this link and it will explain in greater detail.
http://www.ldolphin.org/birth.html

Answer 3

Yes, this is true along with most of the Christian holidays. December 25th was the birthday of Mithras, a pagan god who was also born of a virgin. December 25th was the Roman celebrations of Saturnalia. The decorating of houses with greens and Christmas trees was a pagan tradition related to bring life into the homes when all other plants were dying. It reminded them of the promise of spring and life. If you research Halloween (Christian All Saint's Day), and Easter you will find their roots are based on older cultural traditions. I find much that is still relevant to our lives in some of these older cultural traditions.

Answer 4

Yes, that is true, or something very close to it at the very least.

Dec 25 is the date of a polythiestic Roman god's celebration, and that date was chosen for Jesus' birthday celebration when the Roman Empire was transitioning from polythiesm to Catholicism. This just made it more convenient for the people, so they wouldn't have to learn any new dates.

Answer 5

I know there was a Roman festival called Saturnalia which roughly corresponded with the winter solstice. However, I think most 'christmas' traditions actually come from the pagan Yule/Jul of the original Germanic tribes (Scandinavians, English, Germans, etc... all are germanic peoples). As a matter of fact, in Sweden 'Santa Claus' is "Jultomte" and looks an awful lot like Odinn, the AlVater (who he's based on, after all!)

~Morg~

Answer 6

I'm not sure about that (I've never been that much into Roman paganism), however, it was about the time of the winter solstice. The winter solstice (Yule) now normally occurs on the 21 or 22 of December; this year, it's the 22.

Answer 7

Possibly. What Christian do not like to admit is that religious celebrations are borrowed. Always have been. Some one saw pagans worship their god in festival and said: "hey, we should have a festival celebrating the birth of Christ...I like what they are doing over there, maybe I can incorporate some of those ideas into my rituals".

NO, they see that to mean that their religion is false.

also they use YULE which is a GERMAN pagan holiday that has lights on trees and burns the Yule tide log.....

Answer 8

i'm an eclectic pagan, yet in terms of this style of theism, i could ought to declare i'm a henotheist (I artwork with some deities, yet I properly known that there are different deities accessible). the way I see it, there is one imperative source of Divinity it extremely is so previous our comprehension that the theory-approximately "One" does not even stick to. the varied deities all come from that very same source, yet are distinctive sides based on the believer's custom, desires, and ecosystem. merely like i would be a son to my mum and dad, a brother to my sister, a lover to my lady pal, and a pal. All of those sides are unique, valid, and can't be interchanged, and yet i'm nevertheless an identical person.

Answer 9

nope

often holidays were changed by the church, for the pirpose of changing society

holloween for example was pagan... and the church right or wrong... moved a selebration of saints to that day and used pumlins not with sad faces but smiling to celebrate salvation

siomialrly the longest night of the year, was used to celebrate the LIGHT OF THE WORLD... the birth of Jesus... it's more of a transformation of society

interestingly Hannakah in hebrew is a celebration of the light of the world and also on the 25th of the mongth (the kov letter, and the hebrew calender... God does have a sense of humer and irony, no?)

dont get caught up with the names and numbers... its the substance thats most important

Answer 10

Dec 25 was adopted to celebrate the birthday of Jesus. His actual birthday was Aug 21 o6 bc.