The origins of Christmas not Christian admits the BBC?

Question

http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/holydays/christmas_2.shtml

So is it good for people to put a day that is for Christ on a day shared with pagans?

And should people at last recognise that Christmas is not biblical thus is not a requirement of true Christianity to celebrate and maybe instead rather to be avoided.

The BBC admits was just an eye catching bit. Yes the knowledge is well known and yet people are apathetic to it.

2 Corinthians 6:17

Answer 1

Christmas as you point has nothing to do with christianity.. infact the JWs do not celebrate this festival and for very good reason... As Jesus said you can tell a tree by its fruit.. lets look at christmas.. It is a comercial retail driven period...

So what you might say but.... look at the productivity of this festival... what does it promote.... Its more of a Demonic festival than a Christian one .... Gluttony, Greed, Wanting.. For example while the poor starve in the 3rd world all little wants is a 28 speed racing bike!..

This festival has nothing at all to do with christ and im sure he would find it repulsive

Answer 2

a pretty good explaination of where Christmas comes from:

Yule
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Yule is a winter festival associated with the winter solstice celebrated in northern Europe since ancient times. Its Christianized form is called "Christmas", which is essentially the symbolism and traditions of Yule with the Christian story of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth superimposed upon it. Yule traditions include decorating a fir or spruce tree, burning a Yule log, the hanging of mistletoe and holly, giving gifts, and general celebration and merriment.

Contemporary Yule Traditions
Many of the symbols and motifs associated with the modern holiday of Christmas are derived from traditional pagan northern European Yule celebrations. The burning of the Yule log, the decorating of Christmas trees, the eating of ham, the hanging of boughs, holly, mistletoe, etc. are all historically practices associated with Yule. When the Christianization of the Germanic peoples began, missionaries found it convenient to provide a Christian reinterpretation of popular pagan holidays such as Yule and allow the celebrations themselves to go on largely unchanged, versus trying to confront and suppress them. The Scandinavian tradition of slaughtering a pig at Christmas (see Christmas ham) is probably salient evidence of this. The tradition is thought to be derived from the sacrifice of boars to the god Freyr at the Yule celebrations. Halloween and aspects of Easter celebrations are likewise assimilated from northern European pagan festivals.

English historian Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum contains a letter from Pope Gregory I to Saint Mellitus, who was then on his way to England to conduct missionary work among the pagan Anglo-Saxons. Pope Gregory suggested that converting heathens would go easier if they were allowed to retain the outward forms of their traditional pagan practices and traditions, while recasting those traditions spiritually towards the Christian God instead of to their pagan "devils": "to the end that, whilst some gratifications are outwardly permitted them, they may the more easily consent to the inward consolations of the grace of God".

Answer 3

The Roman Emperor in around 325 AD used the pagan holiday celebrating the birth of the sun god in order to steer the people to Christianity, the state religion. I think it is good that Christians celebrate the birth of their savior on a day formally dedicated to a fake god. Who gets more attention now, Jesus or the sun god?

Answer 4

I think by now most people know that Christmas and Easter developed from pagan festivals. That doesn't make any difference to me. They have been given Christian content and I love having festivals to celebrate Christianity.

Enjoy them, and don't turn them into a war. If people who don't believe want to celebrate Christmas in their own way, so be it. We can add the meaning we want to, and for me the meaning of Christmas is this:

The Light has come to the world and has conquered the darkness!!

Answer 5

Actually the whole mess was created by self lack of knowledge back in the past with confusion.
That ended up with self prides, self rudeness, self discrimination as people of different races of self racism in kicking the butts of God.
When the mysterious book were just our creator's universal gifts of life that was lost with time.
The gifts of life were written in such a way that no living human kind can create it.
That function like a time-machine.
That was how all the cheap-skate ghostly stories all got themselves caught with the blunders and slip-ups with human errors in kicking the butts of God.
Expose by our creator.
That got me blurr.
How I can read it while others could not.
What wentt wrong.
Realised the whole book were in riddles and analogy..
So all along were just stories.
That function as a two-way communication system.
The ghostly stories were all muddled up when compare to the originals that gave the game away.
Luke 8.10,17
What do you think?
Merry X'mas !

Answer 6

Last night the same was said on a program on the History Channel, that its origins are pagan. But, oddly enough, no one seemed to care enough to note the date when Jesus was born so it could be put in the bible, so if Christians want to use December 25, it doesn't bother me. None of us "own" any particular dates, after all.

Answer 7

I think its good that pagans and christians can share it. It doesnt have to be in opposition unless you want it to be. I celebrate Yule (winter soltice) and Christmas. Happy Christmas and blessed be!

Answer 8

That is why Jehovah's Witnesses refuse to celebrate such a pagan oriented holiday. You cannot mix light with darkness.
In response to "M" ------Who gets more attention at Christmastime? None other than Santa Claus himself, along with drinking, and parties. Santa is treated like a god and it seems like many are saying "who is Jesus"?
LOBT

Answer 9

its the other way round the christians stole christmas from the pagans and the druids to help with there brainwashing

Answer 10

BBC 'admits'? They've been covering it up? The rotters!

Agree with your sentiments though!