is christmas really a pagan holiday?
ok so some people have told me that jesus really wasnt born on christmas and that christmas is a celebration of the sun god and that back then on dec 25 men would give gifts and rape each other etc.... and santa is satan scrmbled up... so is it really a pagan holiday? and what other holidays or things like animals or creatures that are pagans?
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Yes, but no it wasn't about men raping each other. Jesus was born in September, or there about. Christmas wasn't celebrated as Jesus' birthday until around 1000 years after his death. Things like the Christmas tree were added even later than that (it was a pagan ritual involving the evergreen tree, praying to the gods that life would return to the earth after winter). And yes, Dec 25th was originally the celebration of Sol Invictus, the unconquered sun, rising from the dead.
Easter is another famous "Christian" holiday taken from pagan rituals. The bunny and eggs were signs of fertility, as Easter was originally a celebration of the Spring Equinox.