Christmas, also known as the Feast of the Nativity, literally means "Christ Mass." The feast celebrates Jesus' birth and the Incarnation of the Son of God on December 25.
Christmas is the feast of the Incarnation, the feast celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, true God and true man, as a little baby in Bethlehem, within the realm of history.
Pagans had lots of holy days and we can technically level the charge of "pagan" against any day of the year, because some pagan somewhere celebrated something every day of the year.
During its first 300 years, the church in Rome maintained a staunch position against all paganbeliefs and practices; however, many new and potential converts were reluctant to give up their familiar celebrations.
In the case of the Christmas Tree, this knowledge can enrich the celebration of the ritual for even the most fundamental Christian and revitalize the winter holidays for those who are not.
Christmas is a billboard of a blend of wickedness and Christianity; thus not constituting a complete repentance from all wickedness.
Christmas is the Roman Catholic celebration of a particular mass in honor of the birth of Christ.
Nearly every recorded form of pagan worship which has descended from Babylonian "mysteries" focuses the attention of the worshipper on a mother goddess and the birth of her child.
Christmas, Halloween, and Easter derive from pagan festivals (the Winter Solstice, Samhain, and the festival of the Babylonian fertility goddess "Ashtarte" respectively) and retain, to this day, many of the same characteristics of these festivals.
Christmas long ago supplanted the old pagan festivals, and those religions (except where resurrected in bits and pieces to be stewed in a New Age melting pot) are effectively dead.
Christmas is a terrible pollution and curse on mankind, using that holy and precious Name to do the opposite of preach the cross, but to preach life in the flesh.
Christmas is a season when men’s minds are already focused on God, not religiously perhaps, but merely because His birth is the topic of the day.
Because the festive aspects of the German-American Christmas, including the tree, were considered pagan, the Puritans in New England shunned them until about 1875.
It is generally acknowledged that the Christmas tree is of German origin.
Part of the modern American picture of Christmas is that of a magnificent sleigh pulled by eight reindeer carrying a bushy-bearded Santa Claus.
He said: "I really believe that the Pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians...all of them who have tried to secularize America - I point the finger in their face and say 'you helped this happen.' " Pat Robertson responded: "Well, I totally concur...
A rare use of "Pagan" is to describe a person who does not follow an main Abrahamic religion.
One condemned Christmas' practices as "merely variations of the ceremonies invented by the corrupt pagans of yesterday." It refers to the Christian concept of the Trinity as deriving from "PaganBabylon." "The religion of paganBabylon did not disappear...it was passed on down, to 'Mystery Babylon,'...[the] mother of abominations of the earth.
Christmas or Christmas Day is a holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus, the central figure of Christianity.
Examples of winter festivals that are believed by some to have influenced Christmas include the pre-Christian festivals of Yule and Saturnalia, and many of the traditions associated with the holiday have origins in these pagan winter celebrations.
However, various local and regional Christmastraditions are still practiced, despite the widespread influence of American, British and Australian Christmas motifs disseminated by film, popular literature, television, and other media.
But the ancient rituals and pagan celebrations, with all their accompanying symbolism and enactments were by no means replaced with anything that was "Christian." One may claim a pig is a duck hundreds of times, but the pig is a pig, nevertheless.
The early paganScandinavians were tree worshipers, and it was only natural that their "Brumalias" or the winter festival of Saturnalia should feature the holly tree and the fir tree, whose wreaths and branches were brought indoors.
Yea, the `Christmas goose' and the `yule cakes' were essential articles in the worship of the Babylonian messiah, as that worship was practiced both in Egypt and at Rome" (ibid.
Christmas carols are songs whose lyrics are about Christmas or the winter season in general.
A popular western tradition involves children going from house to house singing Christmas carols at each one, and they are usually rewarded with mince pies or an appropriate drink.
Christmas Carols date back to the 13th century when a Roman Bishop announced that a song called ‘Angel’s Hymn’ would be sung at a Christmas service in Rome.
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Yule was the winter solstice celebration of the Germanic pagans still celebrated by Ásatrúar.
"Yule" and "Yuletide" are also archaic terms for Christmas, sometimes invoked in songs to provide atmosphere.
Indeed, this is the only meaning of "Yule" accepted by either the full Oxford English Dictionary or the Concise Oxford Dictionary, and people unfamiliar with ancient pagantraditions will not distinguish between Yule and Christmas.
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