2006-12-21 09:02:30 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
and from a biblical aspect also
2006-12-21 09:05:57 · update #1
The origins of Christmas are entirely pagan. If you think the pagan roots have been cleaned up and "Christianized" remember that God does not change. Remember the golden calf story? The Israelites tried to call their worship of it a festival for God! He was displeased then and is displeased now when people try to act as though Christmas is really for Jesus. He commanded thast we comemorate his death, not his birth. If you saw a sweet pretty candy in the gutter would you wash it off and eat it? No! Origins matter.
2006-12-21 09:15:27 · answer #1 · answered by AMEWzing 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Everything!! Dec 25 is not the date of Jesus' birth, and no matter WHEN he was born, he wouldn't have celebrated his OWN birthday.. Jews of his day didn't celebrate a person's birth. They celebrated their life's accomplishements and their death. The date of Jesus birth is not known... so it must not have any importance to us as Christians. His DEATH, and the meal he shared with his disciples the night before his death, on the other hand, are both known dates in the Bible. Jesus even ASKS his followers to 'keep doing this in rememberence of me'. So there is nothing scriptural in the celebration of Christmas at all.
The way it is celebrated now, with all the commercialism, is just a ruse for the money makers to get your dollar. It is also based on pagan traditions, geared around a time of feasting, gift-giving and candles being lit, all to the God Saturn, in hopes that he would come around again in the spring and bless their crops with a change in the seasons. These pagan customs were incooperated into the churches in much the same way that Halloween is being incooperated now as Fall Festivals, or Hell Houses. The birth of the sUn became the birth of the sOn.. Pagan customs, changed a little to suit everyone, and brought into the church to bring in non-believers.
Did any of this answer your question today? I hope so!! :)
2006-12-21 09:21:04 · answer #2 · answered by themom 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I dont know of any parts of christmas that are holy.
Jesus never asked us to celebrate it. Its not on his birthday. The bible never asked us to celebrate it. Its pagan historically. The tree is pagan, The Wreathes are pagan. The commercialism....the greed...definately not holy.
You could say that to some degree there is more generous giving around christmas and that resembles Jesus a bit more....but it also might be just symptomatic and not an actual accoutrement of christmas.
What biblical or Christ like aspects do you see in Christmas?
2006-12-21 09:07:14 · answer #3 · answered by aarondarling 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
1) Founded on a pagan holiday. Wasn't a "holy" day until it was stolen.
2) Trees and presents and Santa Claus = secular
3) Black Friday....there is your proof. There is NO god on, in, or anywhere AROUND that day!!!!
4) Snowmen, Rudolph, the Grinch...no holiness there.
Of course, you say bad aspects...I say all the good aspects of Christmas that makes me, an Atheist, want to celebrate the Vacation Day!!!
2006-12-21 09:06:31 · answer #4 · answered by Heck if I know! 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
People fighting over whether people say Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays. It's absolutely retarded. The Holiday is not going to go away. Instead, Christians are whining over who says Happy Holidays and who says Merry Christmas. I think in a retail setting, when there is a multi-cultural customer base, they should say Happy Holidays. After all, there is Chanukah, Yule, New Year's Eve, and other holidays that are celebrated in the month of December. So what is the big deal if they say Merry Christmas. That's like not fair to the rest of us.
2006-12-21 09:21:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Maybe that christmas is based on a pagan holiday.
2006-12-21 09:06:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Charlie Brown said it best, "Christmas has become to Commercial".
2006-12-21 09:05:58 · answer #7 · answered by ramblin guy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1) the fact that it is a pagan holiday
2) the fact that Jesus was born in March
3) the fact that more people know Santa Clause than Jesus
4) the fact that it is now a capitolistic holiday
2006-12-21 09:06:14 · answer #8 · answered by man of questions 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
gift giving? more emphasis on economy then on god. i dont remember jesus saying, celebrate my birthday by spending money on loved ones.
2006-12-21 09:07:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The way you look at it.
2006-12-21 09:05:58 · answer #10 · answered by spareo1 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋