Where does Christmas come from?
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History and historical register tells a completely different tale as to where Christmas comes from, than to this casual observance. The Roman Emperor Constantine created Christmas and made it a Christian holiday assimilating the saga of Jesus from African mythology and joining it with a current local Pagan festivals. These commonplace observances can make it sound that Christianity has incorporated Paganism, by their apparent acceptance of the particular practices, that is where Christmas comes from, did you know that?
Christmas
The Christmas holiday, as we know it, is really an accumulation of a bundle of folklore and customs that were in fact around long before the creation of Jesus. The reason Christmas is being considered and presented upon in the Western domain as a Christian Holiday is mainly due to people remain blissfully unaware of where Christmas comes from. Looking at all the rituals beloning to Christmas there is hardly anything that is beloning to Christianity itself and that is including going to the Christian Churches during Christmas, as this was the ritual observed previously by the Pagan Worshippers.
Jesus
During the time of Roman Emperor Constantine the Great Paganism was "Christianised" throughout the empire. Christmas was an ancient Pagan celebration that had nothing to do with Messiah's birthday and everything to do with honouring Pagan gods, something Christianity and especially a branch that believes in Creationism (as opposed to Darwinism) does not prefer to acknowledge as the Pagan Rituals and their prehistory proves that the Earth is a lot older than the assumed 6000 years they hold for true. The early Christian Church, when dealing with the ancient pagan Midwinter Festival, found itself in a dilemma. So they set that if they couldn't prevent the pagans from observing their heathen rituals they would simply "re-label" those same routines and celebrations as "Christian". As Christianity spread, this process of incorporating a pagan holidays and customs into Christianity continued. They did this to bring more pagans into the "Church and what we see now is the result of this incorporation.
Holiday
The Romans made a transition from polytheism into Christianity and instead of altering tradition they blended several holidays and traditions into their new found State Sponsored version of Christianity. In my mind Christmas is a great holiday to decorate, celebrate, exchange gifts, eat a pleasing dinner and best of all spend quality time with loved ones.
Modern
Many kids just now are a lot smarter and better educated than we were when we were kids and believed in Santa Claus, whilst we did not really have a government endorsed white bearded man in a red suit, kids this year, 2010, do. It is in America where you get an entire governmental branch using capital to track where Santa Claus ought to be in case that he is delivering the Christmas presents on time.
Whilst many believe it is a waste of money, especially since it is tax payers money, to use NORAD to track where Santa is supposed to be, I firmly believe that its resources are being put to really good use when it is spreading message of peace and joy and it is also putting the ever expanding universe of online social media to an even better use.
Conclusion
I know there are a load of different stories relating to where Christmas comes from but just believe in whatever makes you happy. Regardless of your religious beliefs, it's a time of good will to all and with this in mind it doesn't really matter where you believe Christmas comes from as long as you follow this one rule.
So to everyone out there, here's my message of good will to all: Happy Holidays!
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