Moonglow
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If you want to have pagan symbolism mixed with Christianity God will have a problem with that...Why? It is what it is and people are going to continue it, regardless of the agenda of anti religious people.So change the German christmas pagan tree's name...Along with the lights and separate fact from fiction...Same with Santa, parents should make a habit of lying to children about Santa, or the Easter bunny....Except that we are not discussing tradition in the sense of historically. People think in much shorter terms and a significant portion of them are not going to care about when Jesus was born. Why? Because when he was born in relation to the calendar means nothing. It is that we celebrate his birth and have chosen to do so on December 25th.So, things that began 3 - 4 hundred years ago is not tradition?It looks nice but it's not a Christian tradition...The things you see now only began in the 17-18th century..Including peppermint..Christmas used to be outlawed in England and Boston...
For a 2000 year old religion, 300 years is a recent tradition, and all of the current Christmas traditions have pagan roots.
History says that Jesus wasn’t born in December and most historians believe he was born in the fall. The basis of this belief is that shepherds were watching their flocks at night and sheep are not pastured in December in that part of the world. Nor did the Romans conduct a census at that time of year because the roads were in poor condition in winter.
Christmas, as we celebrate it with lights, cedar boughs, Christmas trees and feasts is almost entirely based on pagan winter solstice celebrations.
It’s still my favourite time of year.