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The deception is so great. Christmas is about the birth of the Messiah. Not santa, minions, raindear, elves, etc. These neighborhoods full of inflatable home depot 'Christmas' Characters are offensive. #ToChristAlone

Stacking Functions 1w ago 💬 3

I agree with your sentiment but to be fair, we don't actually know Jesus' birthday. Most evidence points to late March

Christmas was just a way of integrating early Christianity with Saturnalia and pagan celebration of the Sun God rising after 3 days of death (after the winter solstice). Most likely occured in the 3rd century..

"It was in fact customary among the pagans to celebrate the festival of the Sun’s birth on 25th December […] But when the teachers of the Church realised that Christians were allowing themselves to take part, they decided to observe the Feast of the true Birth on the same day"

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Parallel Structures 1w ago

Let the pegans worship their gods. We'll be celebrating the birth of Christ. I know it's not on this day, but that's what the celebrating is to us. Christ-Mass.

Troy 1w ago

The deception of Christ not being born in spring. Nice.

Parallel Structures 1w ago

The point is that the focus on the birth of Christ (which was the point of the celebration from the time the Christians decided to make it that day) has been misdirected towards worldly characters and consumerism. I don't think the masses are intending to celebrate a pegan holiday. They are just following the worldly culture that's been fed to them.