Why would a Christian celebrate Christmas?

Question

It's a pagan holiday, yo! Even a dummy knows that!

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Answer 1

Ummm... so is believing that God came down, impregnated a human virgin, and that the resulting child was a man/god, who then served as a human virgin blood sacrifice for sin. Then that "messiah" descending to the underworld for 3 days, to rise again into the abode of the gods.

All of this is EXTREMELY common in ancient paganistic religions. The entire premise of Christianity is based on ancient paganism.

NONE of those concepts come from Judaism. We don't have them, and never have. The Messiah in Judaism is completely human, born in the usual way from a married Jewish man and wife, not from some god swooping down and impregnating the female.

The Messiah in Judaism is not to be worshipped, as he is HUMAN and only God is to be worshipped.

The Messiah in Judaism doesn't do "miracles" and we are not to base our belief of anyone's claims to be the messiah on any "miracles" he may do because even the Egyptians could do miracles - and in the End of Days, the false Messiah will do "miracles" to convince people he is the true one.

Judaism doesn't have eternal burning hellfire - another concept that the Church adopted from ancient pagan religions. Nor do we have Original Sin - this is not based on ancient paganism however, but is a disgustingly twisted misinterpretation by the Church of Genesis in our Torah. To teach people (including children) that they are born worthless, sinful, filthy as rags and unable to do anything about that, nor able to be righteous, has NEVER existed in Judaism.

So don't just talk about Christmas being pagan, the ENTIRE foundational beliefs and doctrines of Christianity come from ancient paganism. NOT Judaism, which has none of those things and never has.

Answer 2

Back in the days of Roman Rule, when Christianity was young, the Jews had been banned from Rome, and all that was left was the Gentile Christians. A certain Bishop claimed to be a distant relative of the apostle Peter. He convinced the Roman congregation to make him the High Priest, or Pope. This started the Roman Catholic Church. In order to bring everything in harmony, all the working days, and holidays and such. Many compromises were made, mostly by the Catholic Church. Even though Rome had made Christianity the states religion, there were still a huge number of other religions, when put together, they out numbered the Catholics quite a bit. So the birth of Christ was celebrated on the pagan holiday that was Dec. 25th on our calender.

And yes, everybody knows this, it's old business.

Answer 3

Christmas is not a pagan holiday, Christmas is a Christian holiday. However, for thousands of years before Christ, Pagans have been celebrating the "birth" of the sun at the winter solstice. For the Mesopotamians it was the feast of Zagmuk, the Romans celebrated the Saturnalia, the Persian and Babylonians called their holiday the Sacaea, in Scandinavia it was called the Yuletide. All of these cultures decorated trees, gave presents and held feasts. As many of these people converted to Christianity, they didn't want to give up on the feasting, so they decided to make a holiday of their own, they adopted many of the traditions of other cultures, and added some of theirs and called it Christmas, but it is their own. Just like the Saturnalia is Roman and the Yuletide is Scandinavian, Christmas is Christian. So everybody can celebrate whatever they want, it all falls on the winter solstice.

Answer 4

I agree with you and I am a devotee of Jesus Christ. The date of Christmas was the date of a pagan celebration of the winter solstice. The Roman Catholic pricks fused a bunch of pagan holidays with the life of Christ and called them "Christian." The only reason they did this was to make their religion palatable to pagans who were having a hell of a good time in their days of celebration. Chronologically, Jesus was born sometime in what we know as October AND the early Church NEVER celebrated His birth. Christmas is a sham! Stay home, light a fire and enjoy a glass of wine and a day off from work. Or, what the hell, go into the office and get one over on all the rest.

Answer 5

the place interior the Bible does it say to not rejoice Christmas.? Christmas comes from the be conscious Christ as a consequence that's not pagan on an identical time as the iciness solstice became celebrated by ability of the pagan. additionally that Christians do not rejoice gala's.

Answer 6

I think many Christians know that their religion has alot of absurdities, but they still follw it. Vet yknows that 1+1+1= 3 and not one, everyone knows the sun existed beofre there was light, but why do they ignore all this??
25 dec is nowhere meantioned as christs birthday.
i thinkchristians shd open their eyes. Does it really help to avoid things and just shove them aside??

Answer 7

in todays times, to some Christmas may be a pagan holiday...but the true meaning of Christmas is to celebrate the birth of Christ...showing love to one another and to family and to just be happy to have what you got! God is love and He has and will be blessing us always!

Answer 8

I like it when my family reunites and I also love getting presents :)


A lot of the habbits in christianity are coming from pagan religion. Sundays instead of saturdays, christmas....

Answer 9

It is a time of healing and love and joy. I celebrate the birth of Jesus. It is a FREE land in which I live so I have no trouble doing so.

Answer 10

it's a day where Jesus was born hench (christ)mas... yeah it's no coincidence.