Christmas is a pagan holiday to celebrate the winter solstice. Traditional puritans banned Christmas in the 1500. Right around the time they were burning witches
The winter solstice is on the 21st of December, not the 25th. The dating of Christmas has nothing to do with it.
Christmas is the date it is because it is 9 months (human gestation period) after the Feast of the Annunciation (25th of March) which gets it’s date from an old attributed date of Jesus’ death.
In fact, the reason the UK tax date is in March is for the same reason - the new year was the Annunciation. Then 12 days difference due to the Julian/Gregorian shift.
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Also, the link you provided debunks your own claim-
The popular theory that Christians chose Dec. 25 to co-opt the pagan solstice festival of Sol Invictus is not based on strong evidence but on the margin scribblings of an unnamed Syrian monk in the 12th century.
You’d make a good American Evangelical by the way you take the Bible out of context.
Christmas trees started as a German tradition where trees were decorated in September with Eucharist Hosts to represent the Tree of Life in Eden, for celebrating Creationtide. As time went on and the tradition travelled, it eventually was used for Christmas.
You seriously misread that if you think it’s about Christmas trees in anything but maybe an abstract way. It’s about wooden idols. Who tf is chiseling their Christmas trees into shapes? I thought maybe this would be about Asherah poles or something at least kind of similar but this is a pretty obvious passage about idolatry.
It would be hard to include all of the traditions co-opted to create Christmas in a half hour kids show.
Which there are none
Do you honestly think Jesus was born on December 25? And that Santa and all his elves were there?
Dunno how the date Christmas is celebrated is relevant, or the character surrounding St Nicholas
Jesus was actually born in the summer time. https://people.howstuffworks.com/when-was-jesus-born.htm
Christmas is a pagan holiday to celebrate the winter solstice. Traditional puritans banned Christmas in the 1500. Right around the time they were burning witches
The winter solstice is on the 21st of December, not the 25th. The dating of Christmas has nothing to do with it.
Christmas is the date it is because it is 9 months (human gestation period) after the Feast of the Annunciation (25th of March) which gets it’s date from an old attributed date of Jesus’ death.
In fact, the reason the UK tax date is in March is for the same reason - the new year was the Annunciation. Then 12 days difference due to the Julian/Gregorian shift.
Edit:
Also, the link you provided debunks your own claim-
And once again echoes what I said
After the equinox, the sun “dies” for 3 days, then starts returning (25th). I read it on the internet.
21+3 is 24.
After the equinox so 22+3=25
I dunno I just wanted to be included in the dumb argument
Where did Christians get the decorating of a tree?
Jeremiah 10:1-5 even talks against making an idol out of a tree.
It can mean something different to you today, but it is not biblical. And certainly not about Christmas.
You’d make a good American Evangelical by the way you take the Bible out of context.
Christmas trees started as a German tradition where trees were decorated in September with Eucharist Hosts to represent the Tree of Life in Eden, for celebrating Creationtide. As time went on and the tradition travelled, it eventually was used for Christmas.
I’m pretty sure the idea came from Nordic pagans bringing in evergreen boughs in the winter.
You seriously misread that if you think it’s about Christmas trees in anything but maybe an abstract way. It’s about wooden idols. Who tf is chiseling their Christmas trees into shapes? I thought maybe this would be about Asherah poles or something at least kind of similar but this is a pretty obvious passage about idolatry.