Why do Christians always associate Christmas withthe birth of Jesus, when everything points to him being born in Feb. In truth it was just a way to let Pagan festivities carry on.
2006-12-06 12:46:40 · 17 answers · asked by Travellin Bry 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes you are correct!! 10 points to you. Christmas was STOLEN from the pagan Sabbat YULE, which pre-dates christianity. It was the celebration of the Winter Solstice, longest night and shortest day of the year (Roughly 20-23rd Dec - Northern Hemesphere) This is where the use of holly, mistle toe and decorating an evergreen came into play. Look up the "Wheel of the year" and you will get a very interesting suprise. Nearly every holiday you celebrate, was once a pagan sabbat.
Now which one sounds more like a made up story.... A virgin birth? (If that happened now, she would get locked up!!) or pagans celebrating the changing of seasons?
2006-12-06 13:08:49 · answer #1 · answered by Miss Suki 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christmas is not the "birthday", but the "Feast of Nativity" of Jesus Christ, which is something different and doesn't have to fall on the same day of the actual birth.
The pagan feasts you're mentioning celebrated the re-birth of various sun-gods, because on December 25 the daily increase of daylight becomes noticeable, after the lowest point at the winter solstice (December 21 or 22). They were not only popular (very much like Christmas today), but also very strong through their cosmological side. The Christian reply was to celebrate the birth of the Sun of Justice (see link below for scriptural source), not a mere created heavenly body, but the Son of God.
http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/k/kjv/kjv-idx?type=simple&format=Long&q1=sun+of+righteousness&restrict=All&size=First+100
And the idea was not to let the pagan festivities go on, but to choke them with their own means.
http://orthodoxwiki.org/Christmas
2006-12-06 13:34:37 · answer #2 · answered by todaywiserthanyesterday 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is an insult to say paganism is about fairies. Fairies have recently caught on as a theme for collectors and young girls. Not that there is anything wrong with that. To equate fairies and current pop culture with tradition shows lack of respect for history .Paganism is about real peoples ancestry and is the basis for all current christian rituals. To not acknowledge pagan roots is to disrespect the past of most of today's cultures including Italian and Irish. Pagan rituals to not exist alongside christian ones the two are permanently intertwined. You are correct in your question the choice of date for Jesus' birth is combined with ancient winter festivals & is well documented.
Todaywise you might want to recheck your sources Pagans CLOAKED their beliefs by combining old with new not choked.
They hid it to avoid persecution by the then Christian Romans authorities.
2006-12-06 13:20:40 · answer #3 · answered by CAE 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2006-12-06 14:09:07 · answer #4 · answered by Aonarach 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A couple of different things
1) Christ - being the first part of that Christmas word
2) A thousand plus years of tradition.
I know that Christ was most likely born in the spring, and yet, I love Christmas being in the winter, it's so nice to have the lights and festivity to help brighten up these dark, cold days.
2006-12-06 12:49:57 · answer #5 · answered by daisyk 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
No one knows when Christmas actually was, but December 25th was decided on as a clever way for the Church to draw people away from pagan festivities and over to Christian.
2006-12-06 12:49:11 · answer #6 · answered by WV girl 2 · 5⤊ 1⤋
We don’t know the correct date, so what does it matter? December 25 is as good a choice as any so that we can think of the hope that Christ brought to the world right before we end one year and begin another.
Sorry to all the pagans, but you shouldn’t feel too bad. Seems that Christmas is returning to its pagan roots more and more each year. Anybody else noticed that Christmas angels have all but been replaced with Christmas fairies?
2006-12-06 12:55:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Christmas is the birth of Jesus, even though it may be celebrated at a different time then when He was actually born.
2006-12-06 12:48:53 · answer #8 · answered by Erin 1 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Sorry bud, but this has been asked about 100 times this month already. Use the search function. (and it was March he was born)
I suppose it's a bit like The Queen. She has an "official" birthday and a "real" one.
2006-12-06 12:48:08 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I think the christian faith (or any faith for that matter) has a lot of problems with the real 'truth'.
This is another point of when the church sways away from the truth to make it easier for themselves. How can anyone swear by Christian religion if its easy enough for them to change the date of when their lord christ was born, what stops then changing everything else for their benefit?
2006-12-06 12:50:14 · answer #10 · answered by paul j 1 · 3⤊ 3⤋