It's not about Santa...It's about Jesus...It's Jesus' Birthday
2006-12-25 07:04:51 · 12 answers · asked by VOOL 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Lies...The truth:
Many of us still believe that December the 25th is Jesus’ birthday! Guess what, I have a little story to tell you. CHECK THIS OUT:
Christmas is celebrated in most countries around the world, owing to the spread of Christianity and Western culture, along with the enduring popularity of wintertime celebrations. Various local and regional Christmas traditions are still practiced, despite the widespread influence of American and British Christmas motifs disseminated by film, popular literature, television, and other media.
This may come as a surprise to you, but its origins are not Christian at all!
The Romans held a festival on December 25 called Dies Natalis Solis Invicti, "the birthday of the unconquered sun." The use of the title Sol Invictus allowed several solar deities to be worshipped collectively, including Elah-Gabal, a Syrian sun god; Sol, the god of Emperor Aurelian (AD 270-274); and Mithras, a soldiers' god of Persian origin. Emperor Elagabalus (218-222) introduced the festival, and it reached the height of its popularity under Aurelian, who promoted it as an empire-wide holiday.
December 25 was also considered to be the date of the winter solstice, which the Romans called bruma. It was therefore the day the Sun proved itself to be "unconquered" despite the shortening of daylight hours. (When Julius Caesar introduced the Julian Calendar in 45 BC, December 25 was approximately the date of the solstice. In modern times, the solstice falls on December 21 or 22.) The Sol Invictus festival has a "strong claim on the responsibility" for the date of Christmas, according to the Catholic Encyclopedia. Several early Christian writers connected the rebirth of the sun to the birth of Jesus
In many Slavic countries, Christmas is called Bozhich, which simply means little god. While this name fits very nicely with the Christian idea of Christmas, the name is of pagan origin; it indicated the birth of a young and new god of Sun to the old and weakened solar deity during the longest night of the year. The old Sun god was identified as Svarog, and his son, the young and new Sun, as Dazhbog (the giving god). An alternative (or perhaps the original) name for this festival was Korochun.
So, let’s cut this story short, there is not a single Christian holiday which is authentic.
This is not a big surprise; people are not changing their customs easily! Christianity had to accept the old celebrations, or nobody would accept Christianity.
What I don’t like about this Christmas rush is SPEND, SPEND, and SPEND philosophy.
This holiday is a family thing, holiday which we should spend with our love ones - and it has nothing to do with a fat old guy wearing red, bringing presents to everybody!
(By the way – Santa is wearing red because of a Coca-Cola commercial from the fifties – So this is CORPORATE, not CHRISTMAS SPIRIT!!!???)
CHEEP PRESENTS THAT YOU’RE BUYING TO EVERYONE JUST BECAUSE YOU’RE RAISED THAT WAY (and to prove your family that you love them) ARE MADE BY UNDERPAID ASIAN CHILDREN!!!
2006-12-25 07:24:57 · answer #1 · answered by Èrìç G. (guardians611) 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The speaking snowman is something that did no longer look till the 20 th century and replaced into no created via Christians, yet extremely via people searching for something secular to celebrate at Christmas. on an identical time as "Santa Claus" has his beginning place in a real person, Saint Nicholas who's the main serious saint interior the orthodox faith, lots of the legends related with him immediately are slightly a century previous, and don't come from the Christian faith yet lower back from people searching for an earthly reason to celebrate the holiday. The question could be why do people who don't think in Jesus sense the could invent nonsensical myths so as that they'd celebrate a holiday on the comparable time? in the event that they don't have faith in Jesus, why do they choose for to celebrate his birthday?
2016-10-18 23:37:10 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually we don't know that Jesus was born on Dec 25th, but they choe that day for some reason. Santa is just a fun thing for little kids to bvelieve in.
2006-12-25 07:20:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
people talk about santa because there was a santa and on christmas he would go around and give food to the poor people instead of the santa you think of that has a slaugh and gives gifts to all the good little boys and girls!
2006-12-25 07:07:38 · answer #4 · answered by donald r 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with you 100%. People get crazy over Gifts, what they are cooking, who they are going to give their gift, the last minute shopping, etc. It is Jesus's birthday! Merry Christmas! =^_^=
2006-12-25 07:12:03 · answer #5 · answered by jennifer g 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is about Santa, he is Jesus's uncle.
2006-12-25 07:07:48 · answer #6 · answered by Professor Sheed 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Magic
2006-12-28 09:46:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cause generally Jesus leaves me squat under the tree...
2006-12-25 07:07:04 · answer #8 · answered by kimballama 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It's just a way for non-Christians to feel welcome. However, they are welcome in the eyes of the lord! Come to him as a child and ask Jesus to come into your heart and be your personal saviour!
2006-12-25 07:09:10 · answer #9 · answered by That Guy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because some people think it's all about gifts and presents.
2006-12-25 07:06:39 · answer #10 · answered by D.J 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋