If Christmas is for Jesus, why, when, and where was Santa introduced?
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ANSWERS: 5
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Christmas is a whole heap of different customs from different cultures pushed together. On the one hand, almost every culture in temperate or cold climates has a mid-winter festival. And on the other hand, no-one has any idea when Jesus was born; the evidence in the Bible would suggest not in winter because forcing people to travel for a census in winter would be a bad idea. So the Church quite cynically took over the midwinter festival by making it a celebration of Jesus' birth. So the answer is that Santa-like figures, tree, feasting, mistletoe and so on were there before Jesus.
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Why, by sheer coincidence, Santa Claus was born on December, 25th, too. So now it's his birthday we celebrate!
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kris kringle from sweeden got incorporated with coca cola and pow we had a hallmark christmas ever since.
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Christmas has only been from Jesus since the Christians stole it from the Pagans who used to celebrate the Solstice
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Nicholas
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