Do you believe that Christmas is a Christian holiday or a Pagan Annual Festival?
Do you believe that Christmas is a Christian holiday or a Pagan Annual Festival?
Do the beginnings of the tradition of Xmas prove that this is actually a pagan holiday?
It's probably a little bit of both.
According to history the birth of Christ celebration was probably moved to December 25 to because the Winter Solstice and the ancient pagan Roman midwinter festivals called 'Saturnalia' and 'Dies Natalis Solis Invicti' took place in December around this date - so it was a time when people already celebrated things.
In fact, for the first three centuries of Christianity’s existence, Jesus Christ’s birth wasn’t celebrated at all. The first official mention of December 25 as a holiday honoring Jesus’ birthday appears in an early Roman calendar from 336 A.D.
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