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	Who's Birthday"
		December 25th is one of the most celebrated times of the year.
		December 25th is associated with the birth of the Babylonian Queen of Heaven (Tammuz), the Egyptian Queen of Heaven (Horus), Nimrod (the false
		December 25th is a lie, a deception, a fraud, Babylon, confusion and shame.
	members.cox.net /thomasahobbs/yea_27.htm (1648 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Christmas
		In Cyprus, at the end of the fourth century, Epiphanius asserts against the Alogi (Hær., li, 16, 24 in P. G., XLI, 919, 931) that Christ was born on 6 January and baptized on 8 November.
		In 385, therefore, 25 December was not observed at Jerusalem.
		At Rome, then, the Nativity was celebrated on 25 December before 354; in the East, at Constantinople, not before 379, unless with Erbes, and against Gregory, we recognize it there in 330.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/03724b.htm (4639 words)

	Touchstone Archives: Calculating Christmas
		But it is perhaps interesting to know that the choice of December 25th is the result of attempts among the earliest Christians to figure out the date of Jesus’; birth based on calendrical calculations that had nothing to do with pagan festivals.
		The evidence indicates, in fact, that the attribution of the date of December 25th was a by-product of attempts to determine when to celebrate his death and resurrection.
		Thus, December 25th as the date of the Christ’s birth appears to owe nothing whatsoever to pagan influences upon the practice of the Church during or after Constantine’s time.
	www.touchstonemag.com /archives/article.php?id=16-10-012-v (1700 words)

	Was Christ Born on Christmas Day? > The Good News : November/December 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		No doubt the Virgin who thus conceived and bore a son on the twenty-fifth of December was the great Oriental [i.e., Middle Eastern] goddess whom the Semites called the Heavenly Virgin or simply the Heavenly Goddess; in Semitic lands she was a form of Astarte [also known as Easter].
		In that region, from December to February, though the heat of the day might feel comfortable enough when the human body is covered, the cold of the night was piercing.
		December, in the winter season, seems unlikely, as unsuitable for the pasturing of flocks.
	www.gnmagazine.org /issues/gn43/bornchristmas.htm (3099 words)

	Why was December 25th chosen as Christmas Day?
		December 25th was thus chosen in order to compete with the pagan winter solstice festivals.
		In northern Europe today, December 21st is the shortest day of the year (the winter solstice), but before the calendar correction of Pope Gregory XIII in 1582, the day with the shortest daylight hours was December 25th.
		In order to understand why the winter solstice came to occur on December 25th (rather than any other date), it is necessary to take a diversion, as we look at the history of the Roman calendar.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /gary.h.turner/XmasSept/xmas01.htm (1348 words)

	December 25 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		December 25 is the 359th day of the year (360th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 6 days remaining for the year.
		This date is also known as Christmas Day to Christians and others who celebrate the holiday.
		2003 - The ill-fated Beagle 2 probe which was released from the Mars Express Spacecraft on December 19, disappears shortly before its scheduled landing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/December_25 (1307 words)

	The Date of Christmas
		The accusation that December 25th was lifted from these pagan worthies began with a German Protestant writer and has gone on to become a staple of atheist web-sites.
		But solar monotheists were no less sincere in their convictions than anyone else, and December 25th is in the vicinity of the winter solstice.
		Rather, readers should disbelieve that December 25th is the birth-date of Jesus, because this date is not recorded in scripture.
	thriceholy.net /christmas.html (3745 words)

	Jewmas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, not all Jews agree with this practice, and Hanukkah may start anywhere between November 28 and December 26, in accordance with the Jewish calendar which is based on a lunar system.
		While most of the population is celebrating Christmas in a secular or religious manner, many Jews have opted to build their own customs for December 25, and thus have adopted Jewmas.
		The origin of Jewmas as a cultural response is muddy but probably rooted in an urbane (specifically, New York City) Jewish sensibility, given the stereotypical Jewish love of Chinese food, and availability of both Chinese restaurants and movie theaters in cities.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jewmas (432 words)

	Grace to You (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		December 25th is the traditional anniversary of the birth of Christ, but most scholars are unsure about the true date for Christ's birth.
		The decision to celebrate Christmas on December 25th was made sometime during the fourth century by church bishops in Rome.
		Regardless of the pagan background of so many December traditions, and whether or not Jesus was born on December 25th, our goal is still to turn the eyes of all men upon the true Creator and Christ of Christmas.
	www.gty.org /resources.php?section=issues&aid=176451 (309 words)

	Was Jesus Born on the 25th of December?
		Was Jesus Born on the 25th of December?
		December in the West was chiefly due to the following considerations: "The Winter solstic was regarded as the birthday of the sun and at Rome a pagan festival of Sol invictus was introduced by the emperor Aurelian on 25
		December which falls in the cold and rainy seasons in the hilly country of Judaea".
	aaiil.org /text/articles/light/jc25dec.shtml (1341 words)

	Christmas - Was Jesus born on December 25th?
		The early church, in an attempt to get rid of the pagan holiday, declared December 25th to be the birthday of the Son of God.
		The argument for assigning late December as the rightful date of the birth of Yeshua is based on further reflection on the time Zacharias was told that Elizabeth would conceive a child.
		In the fourth century, John Chrysostom (347-407) argued that December 25th was the correct date.
	www.hebrew4christians.com /Articles/Christmas/christmas.html (1976 words)

	Why December 25? - Christian History
		The eventual choice of December 25, made perhaps as early as 273, reflects a convergence of Origen's concern about pagan gods and the church's identification of God's son with the celestial sun.
		December 25 already hosted two other related festivals: natalis solis invicti (the Roman "birth of the unconquered sun"), and the birthday of Mithras, the Iranian "Sun of Righteousness" whose worship was popular with Roman soldiers.
		Most easterners eventually adopted December 25, celebrating Christ's birth on the earlier date and his baptism on the latter, but the Armenian church celebrates his birth on January 6.
	www.christianitytoday.com /history/newsletter/2000/dec08.html (915 words)

	25th Ohio Infantry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The 25th Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry in the War for the Union, by Edward C. Culp
		The 25th marched into that city February 26th, 1865, and continued in service in South Carolina long after the close of the war.
		Duty in the Defences of Washington, D.C., till December.
	www.ohiocivilwar.com /cw25.html (729 words)

	Calculating Christmas: The Story Behind December 25 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Paul Ernst Jablonski, a German Protestant, wished to show that the celebration of Christ’s birth on December 25th was one of the many “pagan-izations” of Christianity that the Church of the fourth century embraced, as one of many “degenerations” that transformed pure apostolic Christianity into Catholicism.
		It is true that the first evidence of Christians celebrating December 25th as the date of the Lord’s nativity comes from Rome some years after Aurelian, in a.d.
		December 25 is as good a day as any to celebrate Christ's birth.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1039640/posts (3040 words)

	How December 25th Became Christmas
		On December 25th of every year the entire Christian world comes together, putting aside petty quarrels and minor differences, to commemorate the birth of Jesus.
		In any case; on December 25th most of the Christians that I know celebrate Christmas, the birth of Christ -- very likely the holiest event ever to take place anywhere on the Earth, and an entirely worthy occasion to celebrate.
		He called December 25th "The Birthday of the Unconquered Sun", and put it right in the middle of the feast of Saturnalia.
	www.noelnoelnoel.com /trad/dec25.html (660 words)

	Was Jesus born on December 25?
		Some early church fathers believed it to have been December 25th, but the Bible does not say when Jesus was born.
		The early church declared December 25th to be Jesus’; birthday in order to replace a pagan Roman holiday, Saturnalia.
		Rather than disputing December 25th as the day of Jesus' birth, we should be grateful that an increasingly non-Christian society even celebrates His birth at all.
	www.gotquestions.org /December-25.html (240 words)

	thetruereligion.org - Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Osiris, god of the dead and the underworld in Egypt, the son of "the holy virgin", again was believed to have been born on the 25th of December.
		The Greeks celebrated the 25th of December as the birthday of Hercules, the son of the supreme god of the Greeks, Zeus, through the mortal woman Alcmene.
		The Scandinavians celebrated the 25th of December as the birthday of their god Freyr, the son of their supreme god of the heavens, Odin.
	thetruereligion.org /modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=128 (728 words)

	Why do we say Jesus is born in the winter on December 25th
		During the 4th century the celebration of Christ's birth on December 25 was gradually adopted by most Eastern churches.
		In the Armenian Church, a Christmas on December 25 was never accepted; Christ's birth is celebrated on January 6.
		December 25 was also regarded as the birth date of the Iranian mystery god Mithra, the Sun of Righteousness.
	www.answers2prayer.org /bible_questions/Answers/tradition/christmas_birth.html (1592 words)

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		"The practice of celebrating Christmas on the 25th December began in the Western Church early in the 4th century, [probably 336 A.D.]; it was a Christian substitute for the pagan festival held on that date to celebrate the birth of the unconquered sun (sol invicta).
		The birth of the sun was widely celebrated with feasting in the Saturnalia festival held just before December 25th - the time of the winter solstice when the sun began to ascend from its lowest point in the heavens.
		The heart of the cult centered on the celebration of the Dies Natali Invicti on December 25, and it was this date on which Constantine subsequently based the date of Christmas.
	www.abcog.org /dec25.htm (1932 words)

	When was Jesus Born?
		December 25, although one of the last dates to be proposed, was the one finally accepted by the leadership of the Western church.
		The earliest mention of the observance on Dec. 25th is in the Philocalian Calendar, representing Roman practice of the year 336.
		In Rome December 25 was made popular by Pope Liberius in 354 and became the rule in the West in 435 when the first "Christ mass" was officiated by Pope Sixtus III.
	www.new-life.net /chrtms10.htm (4747 words)

	Was Jesus Born December 25th? -- Dr. R. B. Ouellette (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The people who promote this belief say that December 25 is just adopted from a pagan holiday with a veneer of Christianity covering it.
		That means the lambs are usually born in middle to late December.
		Even if people hadn’t been celebrating Christ’s birth on December 25 for centuries, we would still have the record of the shepherds in the fields with their lambs and the calendar calculations from Zacharias’ service that would establish that as the time of year Christ was born.
	www.swordofthelord.com /archives/JesusBornDecember25.htm (2790 words)

	Is 25th December the correct date for celebrating Christmas ?
		But why was Dec 25th chosen as a date for celebrations.
		It was the birthday of Mithra, 25 December (winter solstice), that was taken by the early Christians as the birthday of Jesus as a need and urgency by the early Christians to compromise with existing traditions.
		At that time, in every town and city, in every military garrison and outpost from Syria to the Scottish frontier, was to be found a Mithraeum and officiating priests of the religion.
	hinduworld.tripod.com /history/mithra.html (1348 words)

	Winter solstice celebrations of Christianity, Judaism, Neopaganism, etc
		On that day, due to the earth's tilt on its axis, the daytime hours are at a minimum in the Northern hemisphere, and night time is at a maximum.
		(In the southern hemisphere, the summer solstice is celebrated in December, when the night time is at a minimum and the daytime is at a maximum.
		Some people value the range of December celebrations, because it is evidence of diversity of belief within our common humanity.
	www.religioustolerance.org /winter_solstice.htm (3384 words)

	MEXonline.com Celebrating Christmas in Mexico - Cultural Holidays
		The first thing to know about celebrating Christmas in Mexico is that most everybody takes off the last two weeks in December - to party, spend more time with the family, visit with old friends, even make new friends.
		One of the biggest fiestas of the year - in small towns, big cities, the beach resorts, everywhere - Christmas in Mexico is celebrated in a variety of ways.
		The fiesta for the Virgin de la Soledad, the patron saint of Oaxaca, December 16-18, signals the beginning of the navidád festivities.
	www.mexonline.com /christmas.htm (743 words)

	NCDC: Climate-Watch, December 2001
		The probability was computed using snow depth observations for December 25th for the full period of record for a given station (rather than just the 1961-1990 climatological normals period).
		The normal low temperature in December in Moscow is -10 C with an extreme monthly low of -27C.
		On Dcemmber 24-25th, the 4th greatest 24 hour snowfall of 25.2 inches was recorded, then on December 27th-28th, the 2nd greatest 24 hour snowfall of 35.4 inches hit the area.
	lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov /oa/climate/extremes/2001/december/extremes1201.html (1171 words)

	Birthday of the Sun
		He adds, “As these shepherds had not yet brought home their flocks, it is a presumptive argument that October had not yet commenced, and that, conse-quently, our Savior was not born on the 25th of December, when no flocks were out in the fields...the [Bible says] flocks were still in the fields by night.
		Another indication that the Savior was born in the fall rather than in winter is the fact that Caesar Augustus had declared a census or tax be made of the empire, and each citizen had to report to his hometown to register, Luke 2:1-5.
		223: “December 25 was the date of the Roman pagan festival inaugurated in 274 as the birthday of the unconquered sun which at the winter solstice begins again to show an increase in light.
	www.yrm.org /b-day-sun.htm (4369 words)

	What's So Great About December 25th
		In the 4th century John Chrysostom confirmed that statement, and December 25th became the official church tradition for the date of Christ's birth.
		Edersheim further states that the 9th of Tevet had fallen on the 25th of December numerous times in the past.
		Some Christians are quick to point out that December 25th was regarded as the birth date of the ancient Iranian mystery god Mithra, whose followers worshiped him as the Sun of Righteousness.
	www.roshpinah.org /articles/What'sSoGreat.htm (1364 words)

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