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The official purpose of Christmas is to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, whom the globe’s roughly 2.2 billion Christians worship as the Son of God. It is arguably the holiest day on the Christian calendar. The unofficial purpose is to spend quality time and exchange presents with loved ones and people you want to be with. However, December 25th is shrouded in mystery and the history is kind of murky.
The word holiday comes from the old English word ‘haligdeeg’. A religous festival and a day of recreation. It stems the word ‘holy day’ a day set aside to celebrate some religious event.
Let’s discuss Christmas now. The term derives from middle English meaning ‘Christmas Mass’. The mass celebrated Jesus birthday. The first recorded incident of Christmas allegedly dates back to the Roman Empire in 336 A.D, during the time of the Roman Emperor Constantine. There is no reference to Christmas trees in the bible and all the production that we do.
The bible does not mention a specific day month, month, or year for his birth. The timing is further complicated because depending of where you are on the planet it might celebrated in January. I must bring up the two calendars that exist that most of the world follows.
We have the Julian calendar which adds a day to the calendar every four years, and then we have the Gregorian calendar which does the same but it is divisible by 100 instead of 400. The Julian calendar is apparently off by 11 minutes every solar year. The Julian calendar was replaced in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII. Hence, the Gregorian calendar! His advisors after they found an error of the leap years and 11 minutes of the year being off, adding extra days more than it needed by that time. Hence we have a leap year every four years instead in the Gregorian calendar year. The Julian calendar was 365.25 days long while the solar year is 365.24.219 days long. This is how the Julian calendar produces one extra day a year.
The Gregorian calendar is more accurate and is off by 26 seconds every solar year! The solar year is defined as 365 days 5 hours 48 minutes 46 seconds, is the time between two successive occurrences of the vernal equinox (the moment when the sun apparently crosses the celestial equator moving north) . By 4909 those 26 seconds will add up to make us lose one day by then according to Google.
Now on the Gregorian calendar it is 2023 A.D, however on what is called the Holoscene calendar. The HE scheme was first proposed by Cesare Emiliani in 1993 aka 11993 HE! Now back to the Julian calendar which is still utilized by all eastern Orthodox churches. the current discrepancy between Julian and Gregorian calendar is 13 days. By 2100 it goes to 14 days. This is why Christmas is celebrated on Jan 7th in Eastern Europe where they celebrate Jesus birthday on January 7th.
Here is another theory for the date of Christmas that involves the winter solstice, which in ancient Rome took place on December 25th. Another theory is the December 25 date may have also been chosen by the Roman Catholic church in an attempt to co-opt the pagan festival of Saturnalia, which was dedicated to the Roman deity Saturn. Let’s discuss saturnalia for a brief moment which will give a true clarity:
What were called Saturnalia celebrations are the source of many of the traditions that is now associated with Christmas, such as wreaths, candles, feasting, and gift giving. The gifts were apparently sacrifices to the Gods during what was called the ‘‘winter sowing season’’. The pagan celebration of Saturn, the roman Goad of agriculture and time, began as one day, but by the later Roman Republic it was apparently expanded to a weeklong festival beginning December 17th on the old Julian calendar. Winter solstice was on December 25th and work and business was halted. Schools and courts were closed also. Even slaves didn’t have to work. People wore colorful clothes that were known as synthesis. Romans spent Saturnalia gambling, singing, playing music, feasting, socializing and gift giving.
So where does Jesus fit in one must now say to themselves? Well early theologians apparently speculated that he was likely conceived divinely during Passover the Jewish holiday and later crucified. The theologians apparently calculated Passover in the year of Jesus death as March 25th and then arrived at December 25th as the likely date of his birth aka nine months later! So now you can now see the dates via Julian (eastern churches) and the Gregorian date of the west.
Let me discuss Santa Claus briefly here. here is an descendant of England’s father Christmas, who was not originally a gift giver! Santa is the modern incarnation of the old pagan idea about spirits who travelled the sky mid winter. The association of Santa Claus according to Google with flying reindeers in 1821. He started delivering presents via a book ‘‘A New Year’s present, to the little ones from five to twelve was published in New York. It also apparently contained ‘‘Old Santa Claus With Much Delight’’. An anonymous poem describing Santa Claus on a Reindeer sleigh, bringing rewards (gifts) to children.
I noticed that when I was walking around I didn’t see any decorations that had Jesus in them. Christmas has been turned into a commercial holiday during my lifetime. Hence we have arrived at ‘‘Happy Holidays’’ which I do not utilize. Here is why I do not…. In all other nations you respect the religious holiday. Even if you are not of the religion. If you attempted to do this in another country it would be blasphemy! So are we just going back to the Roman Holiday described above? The happy holiday placement is just another tool of cultural Marxism to continue the tribalism aka separation of American culture. So I say Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all here . However, if you do not celebrate Christmas or are not Christian, I am not disrespecting you! When Others have there holidays do I have to be included…..No I don’t! All of this balderdash has to stop. No Happy Holidays here. Peace and light to all.
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Disclaimer: Absolutely no A.I utilized here. Only A.H.T aka All Human Thought.
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