Ministers encourage their congregations every year in December to put Christ back into Christmas. The truth is, Christ never was in Christmas nor will he ever be. The "Christmas Spirit" is created each year by mass media, not to honor Christ, but to sell merchandise. Most merchants obtain more than 50% of their annual revenues at Christmas. Christians in the United States did not practice the heathen custom of exchanging gifts at Christmas until the 19th century, when the merchants revived this Roman custom in order to enrich their coffers.

Everything about the Christmas holiday is false, corrupt, idolatrous, and pagan. There isn't a shred of truth in Christmas. Mary did not look up to her white, blue eyed husband, Joseph, on December 25th and say “let's call our son's birthday Christmas and celebrate it with a decorated evergreen tree.” First of all, the worldwide images of Mary, Joseph, and Jesus were not painted until 1505 AD by Michelangelo and represented his aunt, uncle, and first cousin.

Secondly, every priest knows that Jesus was not born on December 25th. December 25th, as the birth date of Jesus was not adopted until 325 AD at the Nicaean Council where 318 bishops voted on that as the date. The Eastern Orthodox Church never agreed to this date and continued to celebrate January 6th. Before 325 AD, most Christians celebrated Christ's birthday on March 25th or September 29th. December 25th was chosen as Christ's birthday because it was the most universally recognized and celebrated holiday in the ancient world. December 25th is the day after the winter solstice, or the first day in winter when the length of daylight begins to increase. Every nation recognized December 25th as the birthday of their sun god including: Mitra, Horus, Hercules, Bacchus, Kristna, Buddha, Adonis, Jupiter, Tammuz, and Saturn.

The Romans called this season “Saturnalia” and celebrated it by exchanging gifts, merriment, revelry, and drunkenness. The sun god Saturn was also the first Santa Claus, which explains why he was omnipresent, that is, could visit every house on Earth in one night; and could know everything about every child's behavior. Santa Claus subsequently became St. Nicholas, a 4th Century bishop of Asia Minor who became the Russian patron saint of children. The St. Nicholas festival was celebrated on December 6th until Queen Victoria moved the date to December 25th and made St. Nicholas the father of Christmas.

Santa Claus did not have a sleigh pulled by reindeer until 1822 when Clement Moore wrote the poem "‘Twas the night before Christmas."

The custom of kissing under the mistletoe is believed to have originated with the Celtic midsummer eve ceremony when mistletoe was gathered. During that festival the men would kiss each other as a display of their homosexuality. The custom was later moved to December and broadened to include both men and women.

The Christmas tree was first decorated by Pagans with small globes or suns to represent the sun god Adonis, who obtained eternal life as an evergreen tree. Gifts were placed under the tree in his honor.

When the Roman Catholic Church could not persuade the public to give up these idolatrous practices, they simply adopted the pagan celebrations and renamed them. Oliver Cromwell and the Puritans had the English parliament ban Christmas from 1642-1662 calling it the "profane man's ranting day." The Pilgrims carried this prohibition to New England. In 1659 Massachusetts passed a law fining anyone caught celebrating Christmas. Public schools remained open on December 25th in Boston until 1870.

It is estimated that Black people spend over $50 billion during the Christmas season and support an economic power system that never worked in our best interest. African Americans would be better served if we abandoned the European pagan holiday of Christmas and used our $50 billion to feed, clothe, house, and educate our people toward a better quality of life.
Black People And Their Place In World History - After Christ

Author
Dr. Leroy Vaughn, MD, MBA

Some preachers teach that. Our congregation stopped Christmas programs and has exposed this falsehood since i started attending in '89.

The churches involvement with December 25th was a compromise of the RCC and paganism. The 25th was actually a pagan holyday. The RCC thought that by calling it the birthday of Jesus would lessen it's pagan symbolism.

it never pays to compromise with sin.

Jesus Christ was born on Dec 25. It was the begining of the Myth that is the blue eyed white boy we know today as the savior for christians.......

They are so controlled by thier religion and bound by thier mustard seed faith that they won't even consider what someone has said even if the person has proof.

My beliefs has no religion, it is shaped by only truth. I have learned lately that the truth comes in many forms and if that is what you search for you should accept it even if it contradicts what you hace come to believe.

Shalom.

Truth is stable jaziasha. it is not always to your liking. it does not always sound good. truth is sometimes a sharp knief, sometimes a pillow for a tired head.

truth some times brings happiness and sometimes sadness.

but one thing truth is not is changable. 2+2 will never be 7. a dog will never be a cat.

there are truths that you will never know. ignorance and intolerance are hinderances to truth.

"truth coming in many forms" is what has so many people screwed up today. unless you mean different languages you best explain.

@jaziasha

Your comments are thoughtful and well received. Thanks for responding!