I keep hearing that Christmas is a pagan holiday.?

Question

I see it as setting aside a certain day of the year to celebrate the birth of the Saviour. It don't matter what date I use. I'm sure every day of the year has been used for something evil in the past.

I am not sitting around worshipping multiple gods, and I am not celebrating paganism in any manner.

Here is my Q, what are the specifics of this pagan holiday that people try to invalidate the celebrating of the birth of Christ with.

When , what religion, what did they do. Not that it matters, but educate me.

serious answers only please.

Thank you in advance,

God Bless

Jett B

Is there any other hristians here who think it is okay to celebrate Jesus' birth on Dec. 25, or am I alone

Sorry I meant Christians

not hristians

Poki Poki are you refering to this

Muslims worship the moon god Atlah. They started calling the moon god Allah after Mohamed was told that his god was the only god of the 360 gods in that pagan type religion. This is not the same God as the Christians worship. The Muslims have no personal relationship with Allah. In the Quaran the only time that the god Allah(Atlah) became intimate with humans was to rip out their jugular. While the God of the bible is a very intimate God (he knows the number of hairs on your head) The reason Mohamed was ran out of Mecca (the city where he was born) is because he said that all 359 other gods were false gods. Since then the moon god Allah has been taking on more and more traits of the God of the Bible, but is still a far cry off.
Secondly, If a person doesn't believe in the trinity(God the Father, God the son and God the Holy Spirit) Their god is not the God in the Bible.
Muslims aren't pagan, but their God isn't from the Bible Thats what i saying

Oh you ate one too(OU812)

I am a "born again nutcase"(his words)and don't have a problem celebrating Jesus' birth


Really though, I'm just looking for info on the pagan holiday, no hate mail. thanks

Answer 1

There are no doubt pagan holidays on Christmas but for me it is the birthday of the benefactor of mankind. Don't forget the Cake and Ice Cream and don't forget to sing Happy Birthday Lord Jesus.
I Cr 13;8a
11-19-6

Answer 2

It's not that it's a pagan holiday, it's that some pagan traditions have been incorporated into the holiday. The chick above me already described them, but it was set near the winter solstice to help incorporate the pagans into it long ago. And the tree was also a pagan tradition.
Also the Easter bunny and Easter eggs were a pagan thing to represent fertility in the springtime. Another thing that was incorporated to get pagans on board with Christianity long ago.

It's not like that really means anything, though. These holidays are whatever you want them to be.

Answer 3

Well, Roman taxes were done in the summer, so he was NOT born on Dec 25th, thats for sure.

The pagan holiday was the winter solstice, when the sun was away for the longest time and people thought they had to have a sacrifice and party to bring it back. The evergreen tree represents life (now the christmas tree) and christians appropriated the holiday (as they did many other pagan holidays and symbols) so that people could transition to the new religion with minimum fuss.

Answer 4

There beef is going to be the fact that Christians intentionally put the birth of Christ near the winter solstice. I guess they think pagan were ticked in some kind underhanded scheme where the pagans went to the temple to worship one week and the next week "surpise!" its a church.

The truth is that, though many pagans became Christians upon hearing the good news of Christ, they wanted to keep their traditions alive. What better way to continue celebrating but to simply change the reason for you celebrate?

Answer 5

The winter solstice (21st December) in the northern hemisphere, summer solstice in the southern hemisphere. If you notice the nights are getting longer now as the earth is slowly moving further away from the sun. On Dec 21st its the shortest day,and then the nights will slowly and gradually get lighter as the sun gains height in the sky each day. This was the pagan festival of "Yule"that christians turned into "christmas",and chose 25th Dec as the birth of jesus.

Answer 6

Dude, It's these Born-Again nutcases. The rest of us "Christians" have no problem celebrating the birth of Christ on December 25. Hell, make it April 20, Hitler's birthday, and I'll be happy to celebrate it as the birthday of Christ. Who cares what day it is. If you believe in all this mythology, then it doesn't really matter, does it?

Answer 7

Why would you want to follow the Anti Christ and Pagan days of worship like Christmas not found in God's word the Bible.

Answer 8

Christmas is considered a pagan holiday, for it was in years past a celebration of the winter solstice which goes along with NOT bowing down to idols. God demands our whole loyalties. Anyways in the bible there is no mention of celebrating Jesus birth, but we were told to commemorate his death, which is Nisan 14 in spring the last supper. His death was a perfect human sacrifice for our sins giving us hope for everlasting life here on earth where Jehovah God intended mankind to live. In the bible only two birthdays were mentioned, and one of them saw John the Baptizer lose his head. To me Christmas is just a retailers day to sell...selll...sell.

Answer 9

I heard that it is celebrated around the time of the winter solstice. But Jesus is a real person, came in the form of a real baby, about 2000 years ago. Spring, summer, winter or fall, I don't know. I'm good with celebrating it on the 25th of December, as long as it's celebrated! Don't worry. Truth matters. The truth is He is just who He claimed! And that is GOOD NEWS anytime of the year!

Answer 10

I'm sure you are serious, and thank you for that. this has been asked so darn many times, and answered so darn many time.


BTW, I'm not into telling y'all to give us our holiday back, but it would SO NICE if you'd be willing to share OUR ORIGINAL HOLIDAYS with us instead of insisitng that the world only celebrate yours..

Further, the "reason for the season" is the earth's axial tilt.

I'll try to find where it's been answered here before, but when you asked this question, didn't Yahoo answers tell you that there had been similar questions asked before? You could have just clicked on those.

~sigh~

In any case, I'm not going to re-answer this question this time, though I'll direct you to where I've answered it before. Of course, you'll also have to read through everyone else's previous answers. BRB

COMMENT: OK, I found some of them - if you really *are* interested in more on this, add a comment to your question, and I'll also post non-Y/A sources for the information. 'K?