To Christians?

Question

Do you believe that Christmas and Easter are Pagen Holidays if so Why?

Answer 1

Yes they are. Why, I have studied enough history to know that both originated long before Chritianity. Easter was worshipped in ancient Egypt of the Goddess Esthar who supposed laid a great egg into the nile river. The 25th of december was the winter solstice and the sun god was worshipped. Constantine merged many of those things into chistanity back about 300 ad. There is an excellent book on it, with well documented material called "The Two Babylons."

Answer 2

Essentially the Christian aspect of both Christmas and Easter have become very hedonistic indeed. Christmas actually started as a pagan ritual that was adapted by Constantine for Christians to celebrate the Winter solstice.

December 25th is not really Christ's birthday anyway. It would not make since Biblically. The shepherds would not have been in the field in December. It is more likely early spring.

Easter matches more closely to the Jewish Passover which we know is the time of Christ's death and resurrection. However, Easter too has become very secular and th true meaning is lost.

Answer 3

No, I don't. I don't give a rat's behind about why we celebrate on the 25th, I care about the reason behind it. Why do you care if we have our celebration on a certain day when that is how we've done it for centuries?

As for Easter, that happens around the time of Passover (it's in the bible). ARe you going to complain that the Jews had their flight from Egypt at that time just to steal a holiday from the pagans? Cause you only complain about the CHristians, never anyone else.

Leave our holiday alone! Celebrate your own holiday, I don't care! But quite with the whole, "Christmas is Pagan" crap. I get that enough offline from my pagan friends. frankly, this whole, Take back Christmas from the Christians thing came about in what, the late nineties is when I heard it. Not very original thinking. It's a holiday of peace and love. Just like Hannakah! Just like Kwanza! Just like Ramadan!

Answer 4

yes they were both pagans. easter has NOTHING to do with jesus christ ressurection and christmas doesnt have anything to do with christ birth. There are alot of christian churches that know this and decide to keep their mouths shut because they know they will lose their comers.

Easter is Christendom’s chief religious holiday, said to be held in memory of Christ’s being raised from the dead. But did Christ give a command to celebrate his resurrection? No, he did not. History books tell us that Easter was not celebrated by early Christians and that it is based on ancient pagan practices. The Encyclopœdia Britannica says:

“There is no indication of the observance of the Easter festival in the New Testament. . . . The sanctity of special times was an idea absent from the minds of the first Christians.”

Dr. Alexander Hislop says of Easter customs:

“The popular observances that still attend the period of its celebration amply confirm the testimony of history as to its Babylonian character. The hot cross buns of Good Friday, and the dyed eggs of Pasch or Easter Sunday, figured in the Chaldean [Babylonian] rites just as they do now.”

The word “Easter” that appears once in the King James Bible at Acts 12:4 is a wrong translation for the word “passover.” “Easter” appears nowhere in the Catholic Douay Bible. Christendom’s chief holiday, Easter, therefore finds no support at all in the Bible. It is of pagan origin, and therefore displeasing to God.

What about Christmas? By checking reference works in a public library, you will find that it was unknown among the earliest Christians. Jesus instructed his followers to observe a memorial of his death, not of his birth. (1 Corinthians 11:24-26) Says The Catholic Encyclopedia: “Christmas was not among the earliest festivals of the church. . . . The first evidence of the feast is from Egypt.”

20 What, then, of the date December 25, celebrated by many as the birthday of Christ? It could not have been the date of Jesus’ birth. The Bible shows that at the time shepherds were still in the fields at night. As the Encyclopœdia Britannica (1907, Vol. V, p. 611) acknowledges, they would not have been there in the cold, rainy season of winter. (Luke 2:8-12) As for the origin of the date, The World Book Encyclopedia says:

“In A.D. 354, Bishop Liberius of Rome ordered the people to celebrate on December 25. He probably chose this date because the people of Rome already observed it as the Feast of Saturn, celebrating the birthday of the sun.”

21 Since the date of Christmas is of pagan origin, it should not seem strange that the customs of Christmas are also of pagan origin. Thus the Encyclopœdia of Religion and Ethics tells us:

“Most of the Christmas customs now prevailing . . . are not genuine Christian customs, but heathen customs which have been absorbed or tolerated by the Church. . . . The Saturnalia in Rome provided the model for most of the merry customs of the Christmas time.”

Also, The Encyclopedia Americana points out that among the customs borrowed from the pagan Roman feast of Saturnalia was “the giving of gifts.”

22 There is no escaping it: Christmas is of pagan origin. Knowing this, we should pay attention to the apostle Paul’s warning against mixing the true and the false. He says that even “a little leaven ferments the whole lump.” (Galatians 5:9) He reproved some of the early Christians for observing days that had been kept under the law of Moses but that God had canceled for Christians. (Galatians 4:10, 11) How much more important it is for true Christians today to shun a celebration that was never authorized by God, that stems from pagan Babylon, and that falsely bears the name of Christ!

Answer 5

There are Christian and non-Christian celebrations for both Christmas and Easter; so the answer is "both." The modern Christian celebration of both holy days / holidays had incorporated over the centuries traditions from non-Christian sources: Christmas trees, candle light, Easter eggs, Santa Claus (combo of local customs with Bishop Nicholas), even the timing of the two celebrations. I don't see anything wrong with that.

Answer 6

because of the fact on the same time as many human beings are interested in examining those religions, Christianity is the main dominant interior the US, and hence the only that gets the main interest. that is one element to benefit a faith for private information and yet another to attempt and comprehend a faith whose adherents have the skill to effect my existence. I ask and answer a brilliant number of questions relating to Christianity because of the fact i became into raised Christian, gave it up, and stay in a customarily Christian u . s .. It effects me consequently i'm greater nervous approximately it than say Hinduism, which has little to no effect on me.

Answer 7

What does you heart tell you they are? We are told in the bible by
angels sent from god to rejoice at the birth of our savior. We celebrate easter commemorating resurrection of Jesus from the dead. For without his resurrection we have no hope. Make this
your meaning of christmas and easter and you won't go wrong.

Answer 8

look up pagan traditions, the tree is a pagan symbol, the holly and mistletoe, are pagan traditions, the giving of presents is a pagan tradition, and eating ham is derived from a pagan tradition.

december 25th is thought to be the day of the witner solstice, thus the pagans celebrated this day as the day their god proved he was unconquered. (their gods name means "the unconquered sun")

i havent researched much on easter, but i do know its celebrated by pagans for the goddess eostre or somethign like that.

they arent pagan hollidays but they are DERIVED from pagan hollidays.

any biblical scholar will tell you that december 25th is nowhere near christs actually birthday.

Answer 9

The celebration of Christ's birth and the rememberance of His death and resurrection are not Pagan holidays.

Answer 10

Hi, No I do not believe this,Jesus sanctified all pertaining to the kingdom of God and the church by His Death and Resurrection, and so to the follower of Jesus all attached to His name is sacred.