Christmas was originally a pagan holiday, then was adopted for christians to celebrate the birth of Christ. When they made the pagan holiday Christmas, did they invent Santa as a conundrum for SATAN(Santa) so the pagans would know and remember the true reason for celebrating?
2006-12-05 23:45:56 · 6 answers · asked by Jonno 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No, the early Christians picked that day to celebrate Jesus birth so that their members would have something wonderful to celebrate, rather than participate in a pagan holiday.
Santa Claus is derived from St. Nicholas, not a conundrum. His life was fascinating, you should read it.
2006-12-05 23:50:27 · answer #1 · answered by arewethereyet 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. The history of Santa Clause started around 1700, with the Dutch legend of Sinter Klaas, brought by settlers to New York in the 17th century.
As early as 1773 the name appeared in the American press as "St. A Claus," but it was the popular author Washington Irving who gave Americans their first detailed information about the Dutch version of Saint Nicholas. In his History of New York, published in 1809 under the pseudonym Diedrich Knickerbocker, Irving described the arrival of the saint on horseback each Eve of Saint Nicholas.
This Dutch-American Saint Nick achieved his fully Americanized form in 1823 in the poem A Visit From Saint Nicholas more commonly known as The Night Before Christmas by writer Clement Clarke Moore.
Santa has nothing to do with Satan or Pagans. It is a tradition spurred on from the Victorian Era. Long after Christmas had replaced Yule.
2006-12-06 07:53:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christmas is a pagan festival.
It is not scriptural and is full of human tradition.
Anyway Santa is just another local pagan entity that was adopted into Christmas.
He actually is the god Wodan, yet to get the Christendom tie is paralleled to Saint Nicholas of the 3rd century
Col 2:8 See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ
1Co 10:21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.
The Oosthoeks Encyclopedia explains: "[St. Nicholas'] celebration in the household sprang from the church festivity (including surprises for the children) which in turn sprang from pre-Christian elements. Saint Nicholas, who rides on the rooftops, is the pagan god Wodan [Odin]. . . . Saint Nicholas was also the leader of the wild chase in which the souls of the dead visit the earth."
2006-12-06 07:52:36 · answer #3 · answered by rangedog 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Christmas itself was never a pagan feast but it did replace what was pagan,Santa is not an English word but means Saint which has no connection with the name satan, anagrams can be made from many words that do not have the same meaning.
2006-12-06 07:52:49 · answer #4 · answered by Sentinel 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Santa and satan have nothing in common. Santa's real name is St. Nicholas and he gave gifts to poor children and was in general a great guy. as far as the Pegan holiday goes that is true in Britan dec. 25 was a time for druids to worship trees as gods and the church chose this day to celebrate the birth of christ.
2006-12-06 07:49:35 · answer #5 · answered by Dustin B 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Wow, did you think all that up on your own?
2006-12-06 07:54:54 · answer #6 · answered by nv 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋