I am a Christian, but frankly I don’t think we should be using our time complaining about what our Savior’s birthday celebration is called. WE know what it is for. Therefore we should put the nativity scene in our front yards and say ‘Merry Christmas’ to everyone.

We should act like Christians instead of stirring up contention among the Christians and non- Christians, and I’m sure Christ himself would rather see us visiting the nursing home and taking presents to the needy rather than fussing at things that would restrict people’s free agency.

Merry Christmas!!

Christmas is actually based on the age-old celebration of the Winter Solstice. Early church fathers usurped the holiday to try to enlist pagans to their new religion. Jesus wasn’t born in December – because we know when the Star appeared. And if you think that Christians are persecuted, think of all the people killed by the church over the thousands of years it has existed because they wouldn’t kowtow to the priests.

Wake up and smell the coffee. Everyone in the world has the right to celebrate their religious holidays – and they’re not ramming them down Christian throats. Why do militant Christians insist on ramming Christmas down everyone else’s?

Actually.. America wasn’t founded by christians at all, which it did adapted the bible back in the 1600s

America was founded by Pilgrims fleeing the Crusaders who were enforcing the bible on people, an who ever didn’t adpat to that god was a center of all life.. would die such as burned/crusified/hanged/ be headed..

USA national capital.. Washington D.C. if you ever go there you will see many, many Pagan symbols/statues.. pentagon for instantce in likeness of the pentagram. 5 signs of which pentagram was only claimed heretic/ satanism by the Christians/Catholic..

***the pentagram represents 5 meanings***
Spirit, earth, wind, water, and fire

kinda like the captian planet thing.. but that is what the Pentagram TRULY represented.. Christians just labled it evil…

Other then just the pentagon in the D.C. you have gargoyles another Pagan symbol.. where a gargoyle is to scare evil/bad spirits away..
They have the Pagan goddess of the underworld, on several buildings.. the pagan goddess she was said to be the one who takes people, once they die to the underworld.. where the underworld.. is the after/internal life after death..

Key point here is that Pilgrims brought more pagan ethic to the nation then christian.. which also be in mind the

-Xmas tree- is a pagan symbol.. the tree is supose to bring hope an virtue for ones that keep the tree alive during the vast winter.. because back in the 1600s.. there wasn’t medical/food sources like what we have today..

-Easter Bunny- another Pagan symbol, the rabbit represents life, purity, and rebirth of nature

-Halloween Pumpkin – Pagan symbol represents hope that enough food has been harvested before the long winter starts..

thanksgiving- the day the pilgrims thanked the Indians, was probably the newest of the national traditions in the category.. Just was a holiday to say, once the pilgrims came.. they didn’t in-slave any Indians.. unlike when the british came to America, John Smith.. brought slaves, killed indians, made the Indians slaves.. an what ever else

Oh well then there is Santa Clause, Chris cringal Nicholas? Ol’ Saint nicholas.. which he was a real person, although never a Saint, but gave children toys for Xmas to just give them something to do when they couldn’t go outside in the harsh cold climate.. an people put thought into his belief just like christ.. maybe it is Chrismas??

I don’t know for sure.. but i’ve read the bible an disagree with it.. mainly cause a pagan philosopher back in the 1500s made a bunch of prophecies.. that talked about a massive flood, humanity dieing off an several others things that the bible has.. but the differents is that the bible wasn’t in the same order of the phrophecies the old pagan witch philosopher wrote..

Look at the bibles stories.. they seem like pagan an other scriptures stitched to christianity..

Placeing lambs blood on doors to keep god from killing who ever in the story of moses

-Voodoo witch doctors would place a dead animals blood opun a door to create a sacred feild so that no curses or evil powers could come bestoed on the dweller of the house

The dove in another bible stories, Pagans seldomly used animals in theyre story or folklore to represent stuff.. such as astrology:cancer the crab, leo the lion, taurus the bull, even the easter rabbit..

but all that of how the bible looks like it strips another cultures ethics away… mainly people they were killing the Pagans.. makes me not believe what the bible says.. cause i look at the crusades now.. fighting over jesus.. when it was just too.. KILL OFF THE PAGANS.. to put a jesus sticker on all the pagan ethics..

Thats only what i see an i believe..

They gave presents at the Birth of Christ. There was a millioneer many years ago who would give worldly gifts to children. He did this ever year around this time for the Birth of Christ. People saw the great joy in the children and the worshipping of JESUS and saw profit and the parents saw the happiness. The millioneer died a the tradition began. You know your heart stay true. You know it is written the meek shall rule the world. so dont mind those who think there in control. The truth will change whats needed.

Christmas is about Christ, for me.
That the holiday has pagan roots is immaterial, IMO.
I am celebrating the birth of Christ.

I have not noticed any pagans doing the complaining, to be honest.
They are very kind about it. For all I know, they may be flattered that Christians thought enough of thier traditions to adopt some of them.

In the end, does it really matter?

I think it is because our God is the ALMIGHTY and they know deep down that what he promises in the Bible will happen so they are scared and want him to go away. Well praise God he is forever!!! they think if they sweep Our Lord and his celebration Day (Christmas) under the rug and try to keep US quiet they are out of God’s sight and can’t be punished for their sin’s like Jesus promises. I’m sorry for going on but they make me so mad too. I think yahoo should stop deleting our (Christians) questions just because some pouting non-believing Atheist can’t handle it. They need to stop clicking our questions if all they are going to do is report IT. Merry Christmas thanks for allowing me to vent!

Choosing to wish people Happy Holidays is not about discriminating against Christians. It is about recognizing that in our multicultural world, you don’t always know whether your coworker or classmate is Christian or not. I work with Catholics, Protestants, Jews and Hindus. I wish hem Happy Holidays. When I am in church, I wish everyone a Merry Christmas. It’s not hard. And it shows love for others, something that is a Christian virtue.

Finally somebody understands what I have been trying to say for two weeks. Christmas would not even exist without CHRIST. And I have been wondering myself why they aren’t changing Hannukah or all those other holidays that people celebrate around christmastime. That saying He is the reason for the season means Christ. Schools should be made to say the Pledge of Allegiance and say One nation under God. More people should pray too. Muslim schools are out there worshiping whoever it is that they worship at their school, but at my school we are not allowed to say the Pledge of Allegiance. All of a sudden somebody wants to have a fit and trys to change Christmas. Now it’s hard to walk into a store and a clerk tell you Merry Christmas. They want to say Happy Holidays. When someone says that to me, I reply Have a Merry Christmas! I don’t care what they think, I want people to know that I celevrate Christmas. I think that when people are saying Happy Holidays, they are acknowledging all the holidays throughout the year. We are celebrating one holiday and that is CHRISTmas! so I am going to be quiet now that I have said all I wanted to…one more thing though–HAVE A MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Well I think it is about Christ but he wasnt ever born on Christmas he was born in the spring. Or so the Bible says so. and the holiday was about giving because God gave Jesus to us. But a lot of ppl just like getting presents soo they changed it (i think)

I agree
When the Church decided to celebrate Christ’s birth around the time of the solstice, they gave their celebration a different name. Christmas is no more a celebration of the solstice than Kwanzaa is a celebration of Hanukkah. Christmas is a celebration of the birth of Christ, yes, pagan traditions made their way into it, yes the date was picked to coincide with a pagan holiday. But the pagan holiday WAS NEVER CALLED CHRISTMAS. Christmas has the name of Christ in it.