Like theres: Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza, Yule. Maybe even more but I dont know.
2007-11-24 12:31:12 · 10 answers · asked by Kevin 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
They were orginally started to celebrate the seasons and evolved.
2007-11-24 12:33:41 · answer #1 · answered by ~Heathen Princess~ 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Christmas in the United States did not become a widely popular holiday until the mid-19th century. In Puritan New England, Christmas was frowned upon, as being "too Catholic."
Once Christmas became widely popular throughout the United States, other non-Christian groups chose to emphasize a special holiday of their own at around that time so that no one need feel excluded while everyone else was making merry. Hanukkah is an ancient Jewish holiday, but it is considered a minor holiday in Israel, whereas it is observed with much more festivity in the U.S. because of the influence of Christmas.
The date of Kwanzaa was assigned to Christmastide for the same reason.
2007-11-24 20:51:03 · answer #2 · answered by Catherine V. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thanksgiving was about the harvest, so it had to be in the fall. Christmas was all political and was to take the place of pagans worshipping the winter stolstice. Kwanza is recently manmade and was put at this time of year to compete with Christmas. Yule is a pagan celebration also about the winter solstice. Hannukkah is the oldest. I'm not sure why this date is used but it has been used for a very long time.
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2007-11-24 20:36:23 · answer #3 · answered by AuroraDawn 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Mankind designed the calendar that way. simple, eh?
Hanukkah is the only scriptural one and I am not Jewish when I say that.
Well, to some, including me, Maccabees is a writing from pre-Jesus era that seems to be true, it just was not needed in the Canon when the Bible was put together in the 3rd century.
2007-11-24 20:38:52 · answer #4 · answered by mesquiteskeetr 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Maybe many of them were seasonal holidays originally, like the winter solstice.
2007-11-24 20:38:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Man-made!
2007-11-24 20:41:06 · answer #6 · answered by sugarbee 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The ones you mentioned are somewhat related to one another. In earlier times, it was an attempt to coax spring to replace winter.
2007-11-24 20:35:57 · answer #7 · answered by What? Me Worry? 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Business...!!! Nothing beats sales around Christmas... all the other religions tag along...!!!
2007-11-24 20:43:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is the winter solstice. That is something that every culture figures out.
2007-11-24 20:35:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
CHRISTMAS 12-25 IS THE LAST ONE FOR ME
2007-11-24 20:41:04 · answer #10 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋