y do christians celebrate Yule ??

Question

since Yule, ur Christmas, is actually a pagan holiday. y do u all celibrate it even though u know that fact ?? and here most of u r asking y WE celebrate it. Ur bible says not to have a Christmas tree because its an IDOL yet u all still do.y cause u stole our holiday !

Answer 1

I love your question, but, abhor your writing. Typing class, friend, typing class. BUT I STILL LOVE YOUR QUESTION!

Christians aren't usually aware Christmas is based off of Yule. If they are, they deny it and refused to believe it.

- 16 yo Pagan

Answer 2

Well..I think it would be better suited if you took the time to use decent grammar and spelling when asking this question. Anyhow, it doesn't so much matter where things came from, but how they are used now. I have a Christmas tree/wreaths, and I have the colors green and red everywhere, but I'm not a Pagan? So what? I don't celebrate Yule, I celebrate the birth of Christ. It's like..if I drink Mountain Dew, and Mountain Dew is the same preferred drink of a Pagan, does that make me Pagan? Even if a Pagan invented Mountain Dew...it doesn't mean I'm a Pagan as well. Just because I associate something between us. (That's not the best example, but work with me.)

Answer 3

Because a pagan group had a party in December, nobody else can have a party in December? How (yawn) elitist.

In the guise of being "educated", you show how profoundly little you know of Christianity or Christians.

First of all, Christmas is a season, and only one of many liturgical seasons. The liturgical year begins in late November or early December, and follows the central fact in Christian life, that is, the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus to His coming in His kingdom. We spend four weeks anticipating the birth of Christ, that is, reflecting on what it means to be unsaved, to have a savior, and to have hope. The season of Christmas is a twelve-day celebration of the birth of Christ, because we don't need to be limited to celebrating His coming just one day, and instead the celebration takes awhile, and because it is followed by Epiphany, that is, the visit of the Magi and the revealing of Christ's divinity, on the fixed date of January 4. Yes, its coincident with yule, and yes, missionaries were known to utilize that. No churches actually teach that this was Jesus' birthday, only that we celebrate it then by tradition.

In fact, the observation of the Messiah's birth in December dates back to 225 AD, some 700 years prior to engagement of the Christian church with the Scandinavian and Germanic tribes that observed Yule. By 350 AD, Christians were commonly holding a Christ Mass (that is, a worship service focused around the gift from God that was Jesus Christ).

While it is true that many fun activities were maintained by people who converted to Christianity, those observations were largely social and not spiritual in nature; had they been strictly spiritual, then, like such things as human sacrifice, they would have been left along with the old religion. One such tradition is the burning of the yule log (although at this point almost nobody in the US participates in that particular tradition).

The Bible makes no statement about Christmas trees, largely because the Bible's writing ends chronologically well before the founding of the liturgical calender. We are indeed not to worship idols, but to call a Christmas tree an idol is a blatant falsehood. The Christmas tree, by the way, is a Christian tradition. While Yule logs were burned and occasionally oak trees prayed to by pagans, they did not chop down evergreens and put lights on them in their houses. The term "idol" as used in the Bible, represents "an image or other material object representing a deity to which religious worship is addressed."(dictionary.com). Nobody thinks the tree represents God or any god nor do they worship the tree. Nobody thinks the tree itself has magic or powers or can answer prayers, and our churches certainly don't teach us anything of the sort. Christmas trees cannot be idols because nobody prays to a Christmas tree. Everyone knows it is what it is: an evergreen tree that's been chopped and brought indoors (so its dying) or a piece of plastic representing the same (less fire hazard, mess).

Celebrate Yule to your heart's content and be glad of it, and we will celebrate Christmas and be glad of it. Maybe if we're all celebrating, we'll learn to get along a little better and cut one another more slack in the future. Joy, however, has no season, nor does any religion or nation or any other human institution have a right to claim a particular day as theirs alone; we all coexist on the same schedule around the sun.

Answer 4

I, as many Christians, do not celebrate "Christmas" or Yule... for the precise reason you have stated. I wish more Christians would hear what you are saying, because many who continue to celebrate the day, knowing its source, don't think anyone is paying attention. Obviously.... you are!
To adequately explain why some Christians celebrate a day they have adopted from pagans would envolve a long exhortation on history. Suffice it to say, that it was prophesied that the church would fall into darkness and then later be restored. This happened because the nominal, outward church sacrificed their beliefs by adopting pagan practices and humanistic philosophies. What you see in Christians practicing pagan rituals is a residual result of what the Bible prophesed about a great falling away from the original faith laid down by Christ and His apostles.
Fortunately, the Bible also prophesied that in the latter times knowledge would be increased and God's people would be restored to knowledge of God and His ways.

Answer 5

Christmas is for Christians and the Winter Solstice is for Pagans.
They chose their date to honor the birth of their Lord and we have ours to honor the birth of the sun/Son. Most of us know why the Christian date was picked, but it is unimportant in the scheme of things.
They did not steal our holiday. I still celebrate the Winter Solstice on the day it falls, nothing was stolen from me.
They celebrate Christmas on December 25th.
Live and let live.

Answer 6

because we celebrate it as a holiday for the birth of christ, as constanitine commanded, and its a tradition we hold to today.

stolen is such an over used word

Answer 7

I don't celebrate Yule, I celebrate Christmas. I'm Armenian Orthodox, and we don't celebrate Christmas on the moved date of Dec. 25, we celebrate Christmas on its original date of Jan. 6. And we don't have a tree. Why are you so completely ignorant about Christianity and ask stupid questions, that's what your question really should be. You can keep your dopey holiday, maybe it will give you comfort while you burn in hell.

Why don't you ask your Catholic grandmother, you know, the one you're leeching off of??? That's a very common thing, wiccans who live in deception to leech off of Christians who support them with money. Maybe that's why Catholics celebrate Christmas on Yule, so that their freeloading Wiccan grandkids can be part of the celebration. Go ask grandma right now.

Answer 8

So my girlfriend was born on Christmas. Is the christian world celebrating "Shana's Birthday"???? That's so silly. We stole your holiday yes and you can't have it back! HA HA! neener neener!