Christmas

[ttreg]

Should we celebrate Christmas? I mean many people go on and on about Halloween and Harry Potter is paganistic and everything. And we say that Sunday was originally a Pagan day and everything so should we celebrate Christmas? It has paganistic origins and if i remeber correctly it had to do with the sun. I guess we could also say the same thing about easter since originally it was a fertillity holiday.

 

[Jimlarmore]

There's certainly nothing wrong with celebrating the birth of Christ and the spirit of Christmas is a neat thing to feel and to experience. I think we need to be careful though just how much we get involved with all the comercialism of this holiday. Also we need to remember that the 25th of December is not the day Christ was born but a pagan ritualistic holiday. This is the day when they (pagan priest) in the ancient past sacrificed a virgin to the sun in honor of the day's length increasing. The burning heart is a symbol of this ceremony. Right after they pulled the still beating heart out of the virgin they would hold it up to the sun then they would burn it.

This holiday is a point of contention for some Adventists, i.e. some celebrate it some don't.

 

[Dathen]

This topic is discussed much and always gets locked, so just consider this as a warning to not argue...