One of the upper comments on a BlackPilled video link (Rudolph the jewish Reindeer) featured a question about whether Christmas is a “Christian” holiday.
This bears a clear response.
In the pagan Roman Empire, prior to AD 274, there was no major holiday celebration of a “winter festival” on December 25. In that year, Emperor Aurelian established Sol Invictus on this date as his own pagan holiday for dual purposes. First, as an attempt to salvage the rapidly decaying state brought about by its hedonism and corruption - “Birth of the Unconquered Sun,” and second as a response to the increasingly popular celebrations from the decentralized (pre-Roman Catholic) set of Christians as the marking and remembrance of Christ’s birth.
As to the date, itself, there was tradition held among the early Church fathers that the date of death of a “Saint” or “prophet” fell on his date of conception. As such, they calculated the date of Christ’s death on a particular first century Passover. There was debate as to which year, resulting in a divide between “eastern” (April 6) and “western” (March 25) believers.
By tracking the date of birth forward 9 months from each supposed crucifixion/conception date, two leading scholars arrived at a purported birth date. Hippolytus (AD 170-240), working from the March 25 crucifixion date, established December 25 as the date of Christ’s birth. Subsequently, Clement of Alexandria (AD 150-215) arrived at January 6 - certain orthodoxies continue to contend that Christmas should be celebrated on January 6.
While the argument that a Saint would be conceived and die on the same calendar date is fallacious, it still should be understood that Christmas as a tradition, remembrance and celebration pre-dated the Roman pagan Sol Invictus by roughly a century.
So, yes, Virginia, Christmas is a Christian holiday.
One of the upper comments on a BlackPilled video link (Rudolph the jewish Reindeer) featured a question about whether Christmas is a “Christian” holiday.
This bears a clear response.
In the pagan Roman Empire, prior to AD 274, there was no major holiday celebration of a “winter festival” on December 25. In that year, Emperor Aurelian established *Sol Invictus* on this date as his own pagan holiday for dual purposes. First, as an attempt to salvage the rapidly decaying state brought about by its hedonism and corruption - “Birth of the Unconquered Sun,” and second as a response to the increasingly popular celebrations from the decentralized (pre-Roman Catholic) set of Christians as the marking and remembrance of Christ’s birth.
As to the date, itself, there was tradition held among the early Church fathers that the date of death of a “Saint” or “prophet” fell on his date of conception. As such, they calculated the date of Christ’s death on a particular first century Passover. There was debate as to which year, resulting in a divide between “eastern” (April 6) and “western” (March 25) believers.
By tracking the date of birth forward 9 months from each supposed crucifixion/conception date, two leading scholars arrived at a purported birth date. Hippolytus (AD 170-240), working from the March 25 crucifixion date, established December 25 as the date of Christ’s birth. Subsequently, Clement of Alexandria (AD 150-215) arrived at January 6 - certain orthodoxies continue to contend that Christmas should be celebrated on January 6.
While the argument that a Saint would be conceived and die on the same calendar date is fallacious, it still should be understood that Christmas as a tradition, remembrance and celebration pre-dated the Roman pagan *Sol Invictus* by roughly a century.
So, yes, Virginia, Christmas is a Christian holiday.
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