people say christmas was a pagean holiday.?

Question

how can you take a pagean holiday switch a few things around and call it a christian holiday.thats like putting bacon on a burger and calling it a bacon burger.its still a burger just changed a little.now im not taking sides but what do you think

Answer 1

I think it is up to each family ,and individual to decide what, if anything this holiday means to them. If you want to celebrate it as a pagan day, go for it. For many, it is a christian holiday, and it helps them remember why Jesus came as a baby, and about his life. Regardless, people are celebrating, and its positive. We need more of that in this life.

Answer 2

If you do a little reasearch you will find that almost every holiday that was sanctioned by the roman catholic church was set on or very close to a pagan holiday . It was done like that to try and help the church absorb the huge pagan population around the world during roman times. Christmas = Winter solstice ,Easter =Spring solstice May Day = Spring planting festival , And so on .

Answer 3

The celebrations around the Solstice were extremely popular and widely-celebrated long before the birth of Christ. In fact, for the first few centuries, Christians tried very hard to get people to cease these celebrations, to no avail. Eventually they realized it wouldn't work, and decided since they couldn't beat them, they'd join them.

But I think this is okay, because the point of the celebrations is to take the darkest, coldest, hardest, dreariest time of year, and celebrate light, life, hope, joy, giving, caring, and togetherness.

These things are universal human concepts that don’t belong to any one religion. These are the things that unite mankind. Frankly I think Jesus would have approved. I think he would have preferred the celebration of kindness and love and community to petty squabbles over doctrine.

Answer 4

Check your historical facts. It was once a pagan tradition/holiday/celebration (Winter Solstice), until Christianity became popular. The Christians didn't believe in celebrating pagan traditions any longer, they wanted only to celebrate days in Christ's name, so slowly it came about that they started to celebrate the pagan holidays as Christian holidays. And these days, Christmas isn't even a religious holiday so much anymore, for alot of people anyway (myself included). For many of us, it's just a fun tradition in the middle of winter. But for many Christians, they celebrate it as a rememberence of the day Christ was born. Although scholars even admit he was most likely born sometime in the Spring.

Even Christians these days acknowledge that it was once a pagan holiday. My in-laws are VERY religious (my stepfather-in-law is a pastor), and even they acknowledge this.

Answer 5

I heard that if I have decorations for Christmas and any other Holiday like Easter I have pagan things in my house. Well, I put these Christ Centered in a Christian home. Our lives are to short to worry if something is pagen or not.

Answer 6

Umm bacon on a burger is a bacon burger.

Its a Christian holiday with some pagan trappings. Non christian groups as they were converted added their own traditons to what is now christmas.

Answer 7

before christianity was accepted, paganism was the religion de jour. so to encourage converts, traditions were kept. the pagan festival of Yule was given a christian extreme makeover, conveniently labelled Christ's birthday (more accurately calculated to be sometime in august) so people could still keep their old ways. same goes for easter.

Answer 8

No other holiday has more lies than Christmas.
According to records, it's worst time of the year.
It's about as un-Christ-ian (anti-Christ) as it gets.