The not really Christian holiday of christmas

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  Slim_t Senior

  9 years ago
  Explaining a theory on how it got started doesn't change the present though chica.
  
  Let me give you a seperate example. Mithros was..I believe the iranian?...god of sun. While ra was an egyptian god of the sun. And apolo was the sun god in roman and greek mythology.
  Thor was the god of thunder in norse mythos, while it was zeus in greece, jupiter in rome, and tengri in Mongolia.
  
  The mythology different cultures celebrate different incarnations of the same thing: the winter soltice(give or take).
  And in the same way it doesn't devalue Mongolian culture for rome to also have a god of thunder, it doesn't devalue christmas, that other polytheistic religions also celebrate some incarnation of it.
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  DaughterOfApollo Hot Shot

  9 years ago
  Yeah, I understand that different cultures celebrated the winter solstice differently. So the word "Christmas" isn't Pagan, but some of the traditions are. The only thing that's different is that Christians decided to celebrate the birth of Jesus on that day. Everything else is Pagan.
• meerkat Novice

  9 years ago
  i dont celebrate christmas and i never have or will.I beleive in jesus+god but for many reasons previously mentioned i choose not to celebrate it.
  
  also jesus couldnt have been born in the winter because the bible says that the night he was born shepards were sleeping in the feilds with their sheep,emplying that it was not cold as it would be had it been late december

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