How do these relate in Christianity??

Question

Christmas & Santa Claus
St. Patricks Day & Lepricons
Easter & Bunnies, Eggs

Answer 1

They dont. They all have their roots in paganism. Im not sure how the christian church adopted them as religious holidays, but...

For Christians Christmas is the celebration of Jesus' birth, and Easter is the celebration of his resurrection. But the whole santa and present giving and bunny and eggs and such is all pagan.

Answer 2

You won't find any of these things in the Bible. They don't relate directly to Christianity at all. Santa Claus is a variation of Saint Nicholas who, it is said, gave many gifts to the people where he lived. The Christmas holiday didn't start to be observed until many years after Jesus Christ had been crucified, risen from the dead, and returned to Heaven.

St. Patrick really existed. He shared the message of Jesus with the Irish people. Leprechauns were supposed to be mischievous creatures but I don't believe these ever existed.

Easter is supposed to be a time when we celebrate Jesus coming back to life after His crucifixion. The Jewish people had, and still have, a special day called Passover and we Christians believe Jesus was our Passover Lamb, because He died for our sins.

Now, Easter bunnies and Easter eggs were part of a pagan tradition originally (northern Europe, as I recall). I've heard, many years ago, the clergy were trying to explain to pagans the concept and borrowed the ideas of eggs--new life--and bunnies--again, new life--to demonstrate the ideas.

You asked a very good question!

Answer 3

As salaamu 'alaikym, my friend.

Insha'Allah, with the exception of the historic persons known to Catholic Christians as "St. Nicholaus and St. Patrick", all of the others are pagan symbols as part of various pagan holidays that have been acquired by Catholic Christians and now adopted by Protestant Christians, as Christianity was spread thorughout Europe.

Christmas was the celebrating of the winter solstice, when the days began to lengthen as a portent of the coming Spring. Various customs, such as the burning of the yule log (to keep away evil spirits), the tree and the decorating of the same were used in an attempt to help the "newly converted Christians" (converted in the "convert or die " method by the Holy Roman Empire's army of "Christian soldiers) become more comfortable with their new faith.
St. Nicholas was either a Greek, Turkish or a salvic saint (depending upon what part of which legend one accepts), who is one of the parton saints of children, sailors and lawyers who supposedly gave gifts to the poor families who resided in his area. Eventually, the story became changed to where he was giving gifts to children under the name of St. Nick. Frank L. Buam, the gentleman who wrote the Wizard of Oz books, wrote a book about Santa Claus (which translate to Saint Claus, with Claus being a nick name for Nichlaus) and the idea of Santa Claus took hold with the general public world wide.
Leave it to American ingenuity and Madison Avenue to manage to completely commericalize both Santa Claus and the idea of giving gifts at Christmas while comletely removing any concept of God as a part of the same. When one mixes this with American greed and capitalism run amok, one finds that the competition to buy bigger and supposedly better gifts was being decried prior to the American Civil War. Other Western nations quickly followed suit and as the immoral or amoral practices of Western society spread throughout the world (gun boat diplomacy really is effective) the true "saint" of commericialism, Santa Claus, was created.

St. Patrick was a Roman slave you escaped and later returned to Ireland to preach Christianity and , thereby, convert the native population. He is credited with using the shammrock as a symbol of the Trintity (three leaves on one plant) and for driving the snakes out of Ireland.
Lepricons are the remnant of the old Celtic gods and goddesses once worshiped by the people of Ireland and who were feed by the blood of the victims sacrificed to them. Legend has it that when the Celts became Catholic and ceased providing offerings for these gods, they diminished, literally shrank, into the lepricons. Despite Walt Disneys best efforts (i.e., Darby O'Gill and the Little People), lepricons are thought to be very nasty and vile creatures to such an extent that many Irish would leave a smal bottle of potine ( an Irish form of moonshine or homemade whiskey which is particularly strong) on their door steps for the lepricons so that they would not be plagued by their mischeivious ways and actions. (Many a locl drunk with a bad temper was undoubtedly appeased by the same and the mischeivious antics stopped.)

Easter is the celebration of spring, rebirth of the land after winter and often the time that many farm animals give birth to their young. Throughout the history of mankind, this has always been a tradtional time of celebration.
The Romans, when they were still pagans, celebrated Aester or Oeaster and as part of this celbration invisiioned a large rabbit leaving eggs about. The symbolism is obvious in that rabbits breed like, well, rabbits (i.e., very quickly, with large litters and very often), eggs has lang been a symbol of life and birht especially among agricultural peoples who had domestic chicken, ducks, geese, etc.
The Christians simply took over this holiday to teach and promote the idea of the resurrection, the dead coming back to life.
Again, one can hand it to good old American know how and propaganda to turn this into a marketing success without even a hint of God involved nor mentioned in the same manner as they did with Christmas (go to a shopping mall and compare how many stores promote Christ in Christmas as compared to how many promote "shop til you drop and then buy more"...)

One of the biggest problems with this whole affair is that children are being deliberately taught to literally "worship" Santa Claus, the giver of gifts, commercialism and consumerism and the Easter Bunny , Santa's lesser counter part in what easliy equates as idol worship or putting others as equal to Allah, Subhanna wa Ta'ala. Especially here in American, the majority of children may not know who Jesus (peace be uopn him) is thought to be by their supposedly Christian parents but they will damn sure know who Santa and the Easter Bunny are!

These symbols, with the exception of the two mentioned saints should have nothing to do with Christianity and Christians should have nothing to do with them.

Pagan and Wiccan symbols have become Christian purely for commerical and economic reasons.

Happy hoidays, and ma'a salaam.

Answer 4

Pagan traditions

Answer 5

Christmas is a time of giving
Jesus came as our gift to all

Answer 6

they don't relate at all. There only American mythical traditions.

Answer 7

They do not!

Answer 8

Oh PLEASE.