Jesus Was Not Born On December 25

There is no proof that he was. So why do we celebrate that it is?

 

because the early Christians borrowed heavily from pagan holidays - it was the only way to bring pagans around to celebrating Christian holidays, by blending them with preexisting holidays.

 

Roman Emperor Constantine

and the actual time of Jesus' birth is placed somewhere in Sept-Oct. by most scholars.
all the information to deduce that is available in the scriptures.

 

pagan sun worship. december 21st is the winter solstice. ancient cultures saw victory of the sun over darkness by the daylight period getting longer after december 25th.

 

There was actually a special on Discovery Chanel I believe trying to pin point his date of birth based on what was seen in the sky and it is impossible to know his true birthday.

 

its a typo-ghost.

 

This is only meaningful to me in terms of why we celebrate only on specific days.

 

That is a blood type.

primus illuminati is watching you...smile you're on cosmic camera

 

Do you know a better date?

 

I knew this chick.

 

Yeah, no date, no celebration. Jesus never celebrated his birthday.

 

its not like anyone really celebrates it as jesus' burfday anyways. It still has closer ties to paganism than Christianity.

I'm not a Christian and I also really deplore the commercial aspects of Christmas but once you get past all that craziness its a pretty nice holiday.

 

my grandma always used to make a birthday cake for jesus on christmas.

but yeah, 99% of people that celebrate christmas know that he wasn't born that day; it's just used as a celebration of his birth, not an anniversary.

 

its still stupid

 

So you don't have a better date. How do you know if Jesus never celebrated his birthday or not Let me guess: you just have a problem with this holiday?

 

25th day of the tenth month? (which is now october). that's a more logical date, given the conditions described.

on the other paw;

i'd rather celibrate giving a shit about peace, then when someone was born or killed. for which the winter solstice, is, i'm sure, as good a day as any.

 

I agree, the winter solstice is a good day to celebrate it.

 

It makes sense to have a holiday at mid winter.Days are short, temperatures disappointing. Nature seems to have gone to sleep.

The date is arbitrary but so what? No doubt it's all about the solstice as others have said.

 

that's freakin cute