The true meaning of Christmas?

Question

I know this question is out of season and a little strange. But do you think the idea of Santa is in a sense satanic. Think about it. What does santa do? Take away from the real meaning of the holiday, cause parent to lie to kids year after year and create chaos in our lives due to holiday shopping. The word Santa also is spelled with the same letters as Satan.

Answer 1

Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ our Lord and King and Savior. It doesn't matter if it originated as a pagan holiday. It matters what it means to the one who celebrates it.

Answer 2

No, silly..lol.
Santa is an extension of Saint Nick, an actual
guy in Europe, way back when, that actually built toys
for kid's who were poor, and gave the toy's around winter time, when the snow was too cold, too high, to play
outside, so, he gave them the toy's to play with around
winter, so they wouldn't be so bored in the house all winter.

The real meaning of the holday, is suppopsed to be
the day of the birth of Jesus, however, experts believe
that he was born around the spring time, not winter.
Still, the reason why it was switched to December, and
not around April, or May, is because of what was going on
way back , when Christmas was actually put on the calendar,
as a holday.

So, no, Santa is most definately not satan, or cruel,
and does not cause chaos.
We, the peaple, do all that, ourselves.
Parents lieing to thier kid's, about who Santa is,
is probably because they themselves, don't really exactly
know, who Santa truly is.
They were brought up with the same assumption as
thier parents told them, & so on.
Because, the real Santa , or Nickolaus, was living
back in the 1200's, or 1400's.
Santa, was created, believe it or not, right here in the
U.S.A.
Right around the 1700's.

In Europe, it was considered a time of celebration,
for good harfests, frienships, and just staying alive long enouph, because times were, SO hard back then.
The family got together, and cooked a good meal in
the late afternoon, and sang, played games, and just chatted.

When Europeans started to move to North America,
they brought a few of thier customs with them.
One, being that thier was always a particular time of the year,
where family and freinds got together, to celabrate
good times, and of course, they traded gifts, and food,
ect...So, somehow this got put on December,
and so we celebrate it today at that time.
The whole Santa thing, is based on the actual man,
Nicholous, in Europe.
Supposably, in Austria?

we Americans, created the stupid shopping frenzy's
that take place around December, & the lies we tell our
children.
Not Santa/Nicholous.

Look it all up, on your computer, or go to a book
store, or a library.
Investigate further, before you begin to make accusations.


Mark

Answer 3

Actually, if you're saying the real reason for Christmas is the birth of Jesus, you're only half right. The holiday originated as a pagan celebration of the return of the sun and thus regeneration of the earth. The two themes got along, so Christians plopped Christmas on top of it.
As far as Santa being a bad symbol...hmm...the whole point of Christmas is to show kindness and giving. A myth about a fella who exists to give to those who can't get any other way...yeah, terrible.
But yes, children are mostly too spoiled, if that's what you mean.
As for the letters: SANTA as in saint. (duh.)

Answer 4

The real meaning has pagan roots, it's not commercial. Roman pagans first introduced the holiday of Saturnalia, a week long period of lawlessness celebrated between December 17-25. In the 4th century CE, Christianity imported the Saturnalia festival hoping to take the pagan masses in with it. Christian leaders succeeded in converting to Christianity large numbers of pagans by promising them that they could continue to celebrate the Saturnalia as Christians.

Answer 5

What really is the true meaning of Christmas?...It is certainly not the day Jesus was born on!.....Only God's True Church worship God on the Sabbath (Saturday) and does NOT celebrate any of the pagan tradition holidays like the Mother Whore Catholic Church and the rest of her Harlot offspring churches do! ......."'Historians still marvel at the brilliance with which Constantine converted the sun-worshipping pagans to Christianity. By fusing pagan symbols, dates, and rituals into the growing Christian tradition, he created a kind of hybrid religion that was acceptable to both parties.'
'Transmogrification,' Langdon said. 'The vestiges of pagan religion in Christian symbology are undeniable. Egyptian sun disks became the halos of Catholic saints. Pictograms of Isis nursing her miraculously conceived son Horus became the blueprint for our modern images of the Virgin Mary nursing Baby Jesus. And virtually all the elements of the Catholic ritual—the miter, the altar, the doxology, and the communion, the act of 'God-eating'—were taken directly from earlier pagan mystery religions.'
Teabing groaned. 'Don't get a symbologist started on Christian icons. nothing in Christianity is original. The pre-Christian God Mithras—called the Son of God and the Light of the World—was born on December 25, died, was buried in a rock tomb, and then resurrected in three days. By the way, December 25 is also the birthday of Osiris, Adonis, and Dionysus. The newborn Krishna was presented with gold, frankincense, and myrrh. Even Christianity's weekly holy day was stolen from the pagans.'
'What do you mean?'
'Originally,' Landon said, 'Christianity honored the Jewish Sabbath of Saturday, but Constantine shifted it to coincide with the pagan's veneration day of the sun.' He paused, grinning. "To this day, most churchgoers attend services on Sunday morning with no idea that they are there on account of the pagan sun god's weekly tribute—Sunday" (The Da Vinci Code, pp. 232-233).

Answer 6

The true meaning of Christmas got lost when someone changed the name of the pagan celebration of the winter solstice to "Christmas" and threw in the idea of celebrating the birth of Jesus on that day. The true meaning of Christmas has nothing to do with Christians at all. It's pagan.

Answer 7

Yeah...that's it...Christmas is satanic......you DO know that most Christmas traditions were stolen from the pagans? Yep, that's right...the only thing remotely *holy* about Christmas is that is supposedly the day to remember Jesus' birth...NOT that he was born on Dec 25...just the day set aside to remember it...it actually falls during Winter Solstice...again...a pagan holiday...so all you good, moral christians should really stop celebrating Christmas...leave it to the heathens and immoral atheists like myself...lol!!!

Answer 8

Your last sentence is the clincher. Santa being spelled with the same leters as Satan marks him out as the embodiment of wickedness.

Answer 9

Since the name Santa Claus comes from Saint Nicholas, I doubt it's very satanic.

But the 'real' meaning of Christmas would depend on who you ask.

Answer 10

The real meaning is partly celebrating the birth of Christ as you know and the rest Pagan tradition. Check out the wikipedia website for more info on the argument against Santa:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus

Oh come on, are you saying you don't enjoy presents too?

Lorna