One will find that the commonly known holiday all around the world, Christmas replaced the pagan Scandinavian holiday JÃ_l. The holiday merged to become "Noel", which originates from the Old French word "noël" or "naël".
Nothing special. Since Christmas is not a Christian holiday but a pagan one rather.
Many of the holidays we have today like Christmas and New years are based in part around former Pagan Celebrations. No holiday is bad. Holidays are times of celebration and family gatherings.
Christmas is a universal holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, over 2000 years ago. There is speculation that celebrating Christmas in Dec. allowed the persecuted Christians to hold their festivities 'undercover' while the pagan population celebrated their own pagan holiday, which I believe was celebrating the Sun.
Yes, Christmas is a pagan holiday. It was a popular holiday celebrated throughout the Roman Empire. Catholics thought that it felt appropriate to make the December 25 holiday (the birthday of the sun god Sol Invictus) the birthday of Christ Jesus. Though no verse in the Bible specifies the exact birth date of Christ Jesus.
In the 4th century, just after Christianity became the official religion of the Ancient Roman Empire, Christmas (then called "Feast of the Nativity of the Christchild") was created and placed on December 25 in an effort to replace the existing pagan holiday, "Dies Natalis Solis Invicti" (English: Birth of the Unconquered Sun God) with a Christian holiday.
the date of Christmas was most likely not from the Bible but taken from the pagan holiday ''winter solstice''
Other holidays include Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, and Halloween. Which are Pagan all the way.
To give thanks for a plentiful harvest and to mourn the dead that have passed in the previous year.
Christmas comes to us from the middle ages. The Catholic church wanted to replace the pagan celebrations with Christian ones so they used the days that the pagans were all ready using and made them into Christian holidays. December 25th was a pagan holiday of the Winter solace. The word "Christmas" is really Christ Mass, and the people had 3 masses a day on Christmas Day. There were no gifts nor decorated trees. Evergreens were brought in, even by the pagans, but they weren't used as Christmas trees.
The early Christians did not celebrate Christmas. Many parts of the celebration of Christmas were originally from pagan religions, and were celebrated by non-Christians. In around 300 AD, the celebration of Christmas became a Roman Catholic holiday, and gradually thereafter was accepted by Protestants also. Even many early settlers in the colonies which became the US did not celebrate Christmas because they saw it as a pagan holiday. It was not seen by these Christians as having anything to do with Christ.
It was illegal to celebrate Christmas in the state of Massachusetts from 1659 to 1681. The Puritans wanted to discourage the holiday's pagan traditions and excesses.
No one actually. Christians celebrate Jesus's Birth but fact is he wasn't born on this day he was born Early August to Late Septemeber. Dec 25 is a Pagan Holiday of Yule but Christians didn't want it to be celebrated so choose to replace it with Christmas. Just like jesus wasn't ressurected on Easter Sunday it in fact is ANOTHER Pagan holiday hand picked