Christ was born to Joseph and Mary as they were traveling to Josephs hometown for a Roman Census ordered by Rome.
That census was ordered by Emperor Augustus in March of 6 A.D. I have talked to a great many people who learned this basic fact in seminary school as they studied to become preachers, pastors, ministers, whatever...
Why is this hidden and not revealed to the world?
Bonus for anyone who knows who WAS born on December 25th, especially if they can tell me WHY this person was somehow important to Christianity
2006-12-13 11:37:55 · 8 answers · asked by wolf560 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Mithras. Basically Christianity is a rip off of much of the Mithras myth.
Its not hidden, its just denied by people that are too scared of reality.
2006-12-13 11:41:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
What I have read indicates that there is a high degree of doubt that particular census ever occurred.
However...
Basically it was the slogan of a public relations campaign to 'take back Christmas' and rescue it from consumerism. If you look at the ornament below, you'll see it didn't exactly achieve that goal. More like it opened up a whole new avenue for retail.
Found something. Time Magazine Dec. 29, 1958 "Happy Birthday, Jesus" But Christianity's smash commercial success is a song, composed by Disk Jockey George Donald McGraw. 30, of Salem, Va., who got tired of hearing "songs about funny animals, Santa Claus and filter cigarettes" at Christmastime and decided that "everybody was kind of starved for something real sincere."
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,894045,00.html
2006-12-13 21:08:44 · answer #2 · answered by February Rain 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
One of the reasons why that we Celebrate Christmas on December 25..is that it use to be a pagan holiday..now I cannot remember which one, but, the Catholic Church, used this holiday and put Christian meaning to all the symbolizm, like the yule log and the pine tree that we call a Christmas tree...They used these changed meanings to convert the pagans to Christianity.
Also, some say that it was Nimrods birthday...Nimrod was a King of Ancient Babylon....and he is the one that built the tower of bable in the old testiment...
Or it could be a little of both...
2006-12-13 20:44:30 · answer #3 · answered by Mechelle C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's celebrated on 25 Dec. because the early church converted the pagan festival of Mirthra to Christ's birthday to try to attract the pagans. I also believe it falls around the same time as Saturnalia, which I think was a Roman festival. As to who was born on 25 Dec. I'd have to guess John the Baptist.
2006-12-13 19:44:12 · answer #4 · answered by Purdey EP 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Basically, when Christian missionaries traveled and encountered pagan cultures, they helped to assimilate the Christian celebration of Jesus with the solstice holiday. The celebration of the solstice was because the pagans believed that the sun was disappearing, never to return, so after the solstice, the shortest day of the year it was easy to celebrate because there was hope. The missionaries tried to share with the pagans that they did not have to fear because they can have hope in Jesus. For Christians, the date is not important, it is the gift that God gave that is worth celebrating.
2006-12-13 19:49:18 · answer #5 · answered by Za 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
December 25 is just the day that we celebrate Jesus' birthday. Don't know the answer to the bonus question though.
2006-12-13 19:43:37 · answer #6 · answered by ICUD 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
to my knoweledge no one of christianity was born on this day. it does however have lots of pagan origins.
2006-12-13 19:41:25 · answer #7 · answered by Thumbs down me now 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cause we didn't know or care
2006-12-13 20:07:08 · answer #8 · answered by Enthusiast 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋