Why do people say that Christmas is a pagan holiday?
Heck, Christmas wasn’t the only holiday to get this treatment, Easter (ostara) was the celebration of the spring equinox and fertility which is why that holiday uses imagery of eggs and rabbits, and samhain (Halloween) is the pagan holiday celebrating the end …
Was Christmas originally a pagan holiday? : r/AcademicBiblical
No, Christmas was not originally a pagan holiday. Christmas is the Christian remembrance and celebration of the birth of Jesus. Some say that various Christmas traditions have pagan origins. Whilst Saturnalia does indeed look suspiciously similar to Christmas; the modern celebration, it looks nothing at all like Christmas; the sombre medieval ...
Is it true Christmas started off as a Pagan celebration? If ... - Reddit
Just to build on this, yes there are theories that the Christmas holiday was chosen to be December 25th because it was already thr same time of a popular holiday celebrating the Roman sun god. The celebration of the sun god was around the winter solstice and became increasingly popular after the Roman emperor Aurelian made it an official Roman ...
I get Halloween but how did Easter and Christmas get wrapped
Christmas wasn't based on the winter solstice at all. Easter was the Christian pesach that was celebrated in Eoastermonath (the month named after the possible Anglo-Saxon goddess, Eostre). But then that doesn't mean Easter is pagan in origin, any more than a person being born on a week day is pagan because of that association.
Did Christmas start off as a pagan holiday? : r/NoStupidQuestions
2022年12月16日 · Christmas is four or five holidays in a trenchcoat, two of which, Christ's mass and the feast of Saint Nicholas, are explicitly Christian, but it also has strong ties to Yule and Norse mythology, which are pagan. (the debatable 5th holiday is the 20th century commercialism, which is neither Christian nor pagan) Reply reply.
Christmas and the myth of pagan origins : r/Christianity - Reddit
2020年12月7日 · The seemingly pagan “fertility rite” of the kissing bough actually has no evidence of pagan origin. Mistletoe was a late addition to Christmas foliage, being only first recorded in England in the 1620’s when England was firmly Christian. And at first this was merely hung up, and was not used for kissing under.
Is it true that Christmas and Easter are pagan holidays?
2022年3月31日 · The origin of the term Easter comes from the Germanic name for the month in which the Christian feast usually fell, and so, just as the American civic holiday of the Fourth of July has nothing to do with Julius Caesar for whom July was named, neither does Easter have anything to do with the pagan goddess Eostre, the namesake of the month in ...
Christmas is not a pagan holiday and has been traditionally an
2020年12月28日 · Even the way we celebrated it was fairly pagan-esque until the 19th century when it became about family and love. Before that it was a carnival holiday and it was often times celebrated with riots and utter chaos. But it really does not matter what the origin of …
Is Christmas really a pagan holiday? Did the Christians steal
2015年12月23日 · These posts usually argue that Christmas traditions such as Christmas trees or giving gifts are derived from pagan holidays like Saturnalia or Yule, or that Christmas itself is "actually" just a renamed pagan holiday. Some posts like this one put a lot more malicious intent behind the similarities by arguing that Christians stole these holidays ...
Christmas and Easter Pagan Holidays? : r/TrueChristian - Reddit
In America Christmas and Easter is marketed as a day for Santa and a Bunny Rabbit. Jesus isn’t involved in the commercialized aspect of it. So alot of people are indirectly celebrating a Rabbit and Santa which could be considered idol worship to an extent. Something that God explicitly warned against. Reply reply.