sapphi_snake said:
Jesus was actually born in the summer (August, I believe), and most biblical scholars agree with this POV. What you today call Christmas was a pagan holiday which christians hijacked because people didn't wanna give up celebrating it. Christmas is part of christianity's 'pagan heritage'. Lot's of people today associate it more with Santa Clause and giving and recieving presents rather than with the birth of Jesus. |
i know jesus wasnt born in december and i know 25th december was a date for a pagan holiday but thats all that's pagan about christmas - the date on which is celebrated. The rest is all christian.And by rest i mean the whole point of christmas - birth of christ. and christmas is far from secular holiday. as for santa, people (who are older than 8) do know the true meaning of christmas, its just that media, retailers and big corporations try to bring the materialistic sid of christmas really hard, and they are doing a pretty good job at it
