what do you believe?......
2006-12-08 06:53:16 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Other - Holidays
yes as the Christians took over several Pagan Holidays turning them into Christian Celebrations in order to get the Pagans to convert to Christianity easier. for the idea behind Christmas traditions which were adapted you might want to read the book titled " Pagan Christmas. " very interesting reading.
2006-12-08 09:32:02 · answer #1 · answered by Marvin R 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Okay I grew up in a mixed household: ( Baptist, catholic and goddess center. ) I went to a Baptist college and now am a practicing Wiccan.
Pagan roots:
A great deal of ‘Christian” holidays are celebrated on or were taken from Pagan feast days or modified high Days.
Christmas is celebrated on Dec25 A time of worship for a virgin birth of a deity.
The Winter Solstice (also called Yule, Christmas, Xmas, Jul, Midwinter, and Saturnalia): usually occurring around December 21st or so of the civil calendar. Also, this is a day sacred to the Sun, Thunder, and Fire deities. Large fires were built outdoors and Yule Logs lit indoors, in order to rekindle the dying Sun and help it to return brightly to the Northern skies. Burnt logs and ashes from the Midwinter fires were kept as a talisman (charm) against lightning and house fires. It was also a custom in many parts of Paleopagan Europe to decorate live evergreen trees in honor of the gods (cutting down a tree [Xmas tree] to bring it indoors is considered [by Neopagans] to be a blasphemous desecration of the original concept). This is considered, along with Midsummer, the best day of the year to cut mistletoe. Among some Paleopagans, a date on or near this was celebrated as the Feast of Saturnalia (which the catholics co-opted to use for the birth of Christ).
2006-12-08 15:10:43 · answer #2 · answered by willowrosenberg77 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christmas itself is not a pagan holiday.
It's only set around the same time as a pagan holiday was set.
2006-12-08 14:56:16 · answer #3 · answered by Lady Ettejin of Wern 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when the romans adopted christianity, they used some elements of a pagan holiday that took place on dec. 25, in order to draw pagans into Christianity.
That's why we celebrate with a christmas tree. the pine tree was a pagan symbol used in the celebrtion of the dec. 25th holiday (don't know what it is called off hand)
2006-12-08 14:57:09 · answer #4 · answered by pastor of muppets 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Many of the traditions and customs are pagan origin. The same with easter.
2006-12-08 14:55:19 · answer #5 · answered by KathyS 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The word Christmas gives you a clue.
2006-12-08 14:55:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES. Christianity is a recycling of a trinity motif from ancient times, thousand of years old. same dates for holidays nad everything. its based on astrology, solstices and equinoxes etc.
2006-12-08 15:01:15 · answer #7 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's bastardized from pagan traditions...to wooooo these nice country folk to a wonderful (*hackhack*) life of christianity....totally based on that which is NOT christian....
2006-12-08 15:02:31 · answer #8 · answered by allisen_chains 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i believe in little baby in the manger, Christmas Jesus.
2006-12-08 14:57:21 · answer #9 · answered by Jenna 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, it is.
2006-12-08 14:55:06 · answer #10 · answered by Black_hole_gravity 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋