Is christmas a pagan holiday?

Answer 1

It is a Pagan holiday that "Christians" adopted to be one of their own, you need to research a lot of the traditions that are done during the holiday.

For instance:
They tell us that it is the season to be jolly. It is a time of ornaments, red and green decorations, silver bells, holly, mistletoe and colored lights. It is also a time of department store Santas calling out their universal mantra, "Ho ho ho, Merry Christmas." Nearly all of the realm of so-called "Christianity" join in and repeat this same greeting, "Merry Christmas!"

Although we hear these words constantly as they resonate millions of times throughout the land, almost nobody understands what they are really saying. It is the purpose of this tract to take the words, "Merry Christmas" and examine the true meaning and essence of those words.

A true Christian would want to examine everything they say, because Jesus said in Matthew 12:36-37, "But I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgement. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned." We will now set aside all of the customs, glitter and traditions of Christmas, which were taken from pagan witchcraft and popularized by the Roman Catholic Church, and we will focus on the true meaning of the words, "Merry Christmas!"

The word "Merry" is simple to define. It unquestionably means to be happy, joyful and light-hearted. The word "merry" fits into the ambience of laughter and frivolity. This word "merry" by itself is innocent and innocuous enough, but as we will now see, it becomes heinously blasphemous when used with the word "Christmas."

Here let it be noted that most people think that the word, "Christmas" means "the birth of Christ." By definition, it means "death of Christ", and I will prove it by using the World Book Encyclopedia, the Catholic Encyclopedia, and a book entitled, The Mass In Slow Motion.

If you are an honest, sincere and discerning Christian, please read on; if not, you might as well stop right here. The World Book Encyclopedia defines "Christmas" as follows: "The word Christmas comes from "Cristes Maesse", an early English phrase that means "Mass of Christ." (1) It is interesting to note that the word "Mass", as used by the Roman Catholics, has traditionally been rejected by the so-called Protestants, such as Lutherans, Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Pentecostals and so on. The word "Mass" is strictly a Catholic word and thus, so is "Christ-Mass."

It would stand to reason, that since all of these denominations love and embrace "Christ-Mass", that December 25th is the great homecoming day, when all of the Protestants become Catholic for a day. It would seem that all of the so-called "wayward daughters" of the Romish church return to their mother, the scarlet harlot. Thus, all of the so-called Protestant churches could sing to the Pope that popular song "I'll be home for Christmas."

As previously stated, the word "Mass" in religious usage means a "death sacrifice." The impact of this fact is horrifying and shocking; for when the millions of people are saying, "Merry Christmas", they are literally saying "Merry death of Christ!" Furthermore, when the fat man in the red suit laughs boisterously and says, "Ho ho ho, Merry Christmas", he is mocking and laughing at the suffering and bleeding Saviour, who died for our sins. He does this while parents place their little children into his waiting arms to hear his false promises of gifts that he says he will give them. Consider what you are saying when you say "Merry Christmas."

What is so amusing about our Saviour's painful death? What is so funny? Why is Santa laughing? Why are you going along with it? Your words do count and Satan knows it. Yes, the word "Mass" does mean "death sacrifice", and to cement that fact, we will consider the definition of the inventors of the religious application of the word "Mass." I am looking at page 537 of the Catholic Encyclopedia, which says, "In the Christian law, the supreme sacrifice is that of the Mass." It goes on to say, "The supreme act of worship consists essentially in an offering of a worthy victim to God, the offering made by a proper person, as a priest, the destruction of the victim." (2) Please note carefully the word, "victim" of the Mass. The Latin word for victim is "Hostia" from which the word "host" is derived. The Mass, by definition of those who coined the word, is a sacrifice involving a victim. There is no other meaning for the word "Mass" or "Christ-Mass." On page 110 of a book entitled "The Mass In Slow Motion", we find the following words: "It is only with the consecration that the sacrifice of the Mass is achieved. I have represented the Mass to you, more than once, as a kind of ritual dance." (3)

In essence, the Mass is the ceremonial slaying of Jesus Christ over and over again, followed by the eating of his flesh and the drinking of his blood. The Mass is the death sacrifice, and the "Host" is the victim. This is official Roman Catholic doctrine, and "Christmas" is a word that they invented. Again, I ask, what is so merry about the pain, bleeding, suffering and death of Jesus Christ? Satan has done quite a job of getting millions of so-called "Christians" to blaspheme. What a deceiver he is.
Now you know the true meaning of the word "Christmas" or Mass of Christ.

Also something about the Bell Ringers that Stand in front of the stores ringing the bell and saying Merry Christmas:
Pagans used bells to summon demons, cast spells, and communicate with the dead, Christians used them to cast out evil spirits and frighten away storms(storms...aka...people that don't give money!)

Answer 2

While many of the "traditions" surrounding Christmas were originally taken from pagan rituals they not the focus of today's celebrations. Few people even know many,if any, of the details of those ancient practices. So to say that people today deliberately celebrate a "pagan" holiday in Christmas, is wrong. This is usually only brought up by those who see some reason to be offended by the message of Christmas,as it relates to the birth of Jesus Christ.
If it were not the "pagan" claims it would be something else,this much is sure.
The truth is that there are only 2 GOD related holidays a year. Christmas and Easter . These are the only holidays on the calender that have had substitutes,or "add on's", placed on them. Santa has nothing to do with Christ's birth and the Easter Bunny has nothing to do with His Resurrection. (note: rabbits give live birth, there are no "eggs")

Answer 3

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Answer 4

No it is not pagan. Christmas is the celebration of the birth of the Christ, the promised Messiah (He who will save his people from their sins), awaited by the Jews since the beginning.
"Christo" comes from the Greek and means Messiah. Christians see Christmas as a joyful time because. Before Jesus came into the world, Heaven was not open because man had distanced himself from God by his sinfulness. After God sent his only son to become the holy and pure sin offering, the promised Messiah, then the gates of heaven were opened and there was hope for salvation.
If anyone wants to distort things to suit his own agenda, to say that Christmas is a pagan holiday, then he is the one who is ignorant. There may have been some other holiday that the pagans celebrated around the same season, but the two are not related and Christmas is what it is and always has been.

Answer 5

A lot of the Christmas traditions are adaptations of old Pagan traditions, like misteltoe and holly (pagan fertility symbols- and they didn't JUST kiss under the misteltoe... that's a G-rated version of some of the original rituals), decorating trees and wreaths, and even exchanging presents were all part of the celebrations for the Roman holiday Saturnalia, and there are elements of Norse mythology in the story of Santa Claus. (The Norse god Odin used to ride a sleigh that flew in the sky and bring presents to children according to legends.)

But Christmas itself? There are arguments about whether or not December 25th was Jesus's actual historical birthday, yes. But whether it was or not, that's the day when his birth is celebrated.

So, regardless of where the random traditions came from, if millions of people celebrate Christ's birth on that day, I think it's been pretty well Christianized. Why worry about it? I'm not a Christian myself, but I doubt Jesus would care when or how his birth was celebrated, as long as you're living according to his teachings.

Answer 6

Christmas has its orgins in pagan rites of winter. The missionaries had a hard enough time convincing pagans to believe in God, taking away their winter soltice celebrations would have made the job harder. So they incorporated many of the winter solstice traditions into the Christian ones. Yule logs, Christmas Trees, etc. all have pagan roots. (lets be honest here, there are no pine trees in Bethlehem). They attached the Christian idea of celebrating the birth of the baby Jesus to a celebration the pagans already have. Christmas is NOT the most important Christian holiday, Easter is.

Answer 7

Yes, it was adapted from the Roman holiday of Saturnalia held during the winter solstice. As far as the actual date of Christ's birth it probably was in the fall. In the Gospel stories people of the Roman Empire were directed to return to their ancestral towns to be counted for upcoming taxes. Most people in the ancient world would have been returning home around harvest time to sell their wares, crops, products etc. before the onset of winter.

When more and more Romans began to accept Christianity they didn't want to give up their old pagan ways (and evangilizing was easier) so many old rites were still observed.

Answer 8

In a nutshell. clearly no. Because on Christmas Christians celebrate Jesus Christ's birth and marvel at his example. But the sad truth about Christmas is that Jesus is no longer in the bigger picture. Its mostly Santa Clause and his reindeers and such charachters. . .. .

Hundreds of years ago when Christianity was on the rise (the first christians that did NOT believe Jesus Christ to be the son of god in way) the Emperor Justinian knew that the rise of christianity was inevitable and that his pagan religion, the religion that supported the government financially so well, was about to collapse he decided to jump on the winning horse (christianity). Historians still praise Justinian for his awsome predictions. However the problem with christianity (to justinian) was that it was far too pure and could not sustain the government. So Justinian decided to introduce paganism into christianity and fused the two. VIola! you have a fusion faith.

Jesus became the son of god so this way believers can pay to pray to both God and his Son, instead of just God. and christmas which originally celebrated the winter solstice became the official cause of celebration for the birth of Jesus Christ (who was actually born sometime in the spring march-april) decorating trees and the hanging of wreaths are all pagan traditions. Emporer Justinian also sort of "tore" or re-wrote pages of the bible so that it supports many of the new changes that he brought on christianity.

Since then the Christian churches have changed much. They no longer charge outragous sums of money in the name of God. But many christians find it hard to realise the history of a book and a faith that was origianally based on the outstanding personality and charachter of Jesus was molded by many people throughout history for the sole purpose of money. Christians need to realise that true christianity diminished... and needs to be reborn.

So, christmas is a christian holiday as it is celebrated by mostly christians on the birth of Jesus Christ. Wiccans however may celebrate the winter solstice but they just call it something else.

Answer 9

You don't spend a lot of time here, do you? This question has been asked and answered repeatedly. The original celebration was for winter solstice, orginated by Pagans. Christianity chose this date to celebrate the birth of Christ (even though his date of birth is unknown.) SO ... in conclusion, Christmas is a holiday celebrated by many for different reasons.

Answer 10

Sure is. That is why we have christmas trees and all of that weird non-Christian stuff. Christmas is not very important in the Eastern Churches, but the Roman Catholic Church had to absorb some of the pagan stuff to get the heathens of the North to join up.

Answer 11

Christmas is not a Pagan holiday. Nearly all of the customs that are involved with that holiday ARE Pagan.

Tree, candles/lights, mistletoe, holly, gifts, singing to celebrate, the idea of renewal and the promise of returning life, and so on.

These are a lot of fun, and most Pagans don't mind sharing them with Christians.But we'd really like it if YOU would share with US, who you got them from to begin with, instead of claiming exclusive ownership of these things.

Its like you put your name on someone else's thesis, change a paragraph or two, and then gripe when the actual author objects to your claims that it's "yours".