Why do Christians celebrate Christmas when it is a pagan holiday?

Answer 1

I am gonna go with, lack of historical understanding and an abundance of delusional thinking...

Answer 2

It was a Pagan holiday, but the Christians(me) stole the date and I could care less, if your a pagan then celebrate the solstice. Christmas time is a time of celebration for every religion, including Judaism and Islam.

In fact historian researchers had dated the time of birth of Jesus to be in the springtime of 1 AD. There was an alignment of Venus, Mars, and Jupiter, thus making the bright star in the sky that the sheppards followed. When the calender was reshuffled into the modern era Christian leaders spread out Easter and Christmas to have two major holidays in the Christan year, and took over the Pagan Solstice.

Answer 3

Before it was called Christmas it was a pagan holiday to the sun. Christans came along and tried to make it a better holiday by saying it was when Christ was born. Now it is ruined with Santa Claus! Christmas is most likely not the day that Jesus was born. We celebrate Christmas as a remembrance of his birth.

Answer 4

I am surprised and I don't know why?

Not about Christmas being a pagan holiday, everything about it is pagan in origin except for Christ's title being tagged to it. What I am surprised about is all the people being to lazy to look it up, if not in an encyclopedia, then on the net. It doesn't take much effort at all to read of the origins of everything connected with Christmas being pagan.

The Christmas Carol was not written in the Bible folks. December 25th has nothing to do with Jesus. Neither do pine trees, burning logs, ornaments, or gift giving on holidays.

Why, when everything Jesus and his Father have done show how they despised any false or pagan worship being mixed in with worship of the true God. Jesus condemned religious leaders of the day as hypocrites, snakes (offspring of vipers) and kicking forcefully everyone out of the temple in Jerusalem for defaming it. God would warn and then just kill them. Is there anything wishy-washy about that?

But it's "FUN"! God is not against fun. He is a happy God. Just do not do it in connection with a pagan holiday.

Answer 5

Not really

It is more the case that Christians tried in the past to transform culture, replacing pagan holidays with a Christian world view.

THe darkest night of the year is a fine time to celebrate the light of the world. St Bonoface chopped down a pagan oak tree and led the people to an evergreen reading Psalm 1 which says a man who trusts in Gods workd is like a tree whose leave is always green and does not wither.

Answer 6

Because Christians have a long history of twisting stories and adding there own information and then taking the credit. When you look back these days you see that all roads point to Christmas as being a Christian tradition from the very beginning when actually Christians stole it from the pagans and made it there own.

Answer 7

Okay. We celebrate Christmas because it is the birth of our savior Jesus CHRIST. Thats is why we celebatre CHRISTmas. People made it pagan but it is not meant to be pagan so they created XMas. Theres a diffrence. Christmas or as atheist call XMas wouldnt be a holiday if Jesus CHRIST wasnt born

Answer 8

yes it happens on a day when a pagan holiday used to be celebrated, but that does not make it a pagan holiday. it has a completely different meaning and celebrates Christ's birth, which definatly makes it a Christian holiday

Answer 9

Christmas IS a Christian holiday, sorry to burst your bubble. What you're referring to is the MUCH older celebration of Solstice, a.k.a. Yule, that has been around for tens of thousands of years BEFORE Christianity.

But even the pious rarely celebrate Christmas beyond, "What am I going to get out of it this year?" If you can explain what a red ribbon on a Lexus has to do with deification, I'd like to hear it.

Answer 10

The celebration which we have around the 25th of December was indeed pagan to begin with BUT:

1: It has been a Christian celebration for around 1900 years.
2: It was and is acceptable for Christians to rethink that original paradigm.
3: Why should Christians NOT celebrate a day for Christ's birth?

Answer 11

Christmas is not a pagan holiday, it is the celebration of the birth of our savior Jesus Christ. The "pagan" holiday is the whole winter solistice celebration thing or whatever, and it happens to be around the same time. Chanukah lands around the same time, doesn't mean we all celebrate that, and Jewish people don't celebrate Christmas because it's near Chanukah. Good grief. Merry Christmas!!!! ;)