Christians: Do you believe Christmas derived from a pagan Holiday? If so , can you please explain why you celebrate it?
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L. Taylor
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The only thing I can post in this answer is that I celebrate Christmas for "family tradition only" like getting together and sharing presents and not because it was the birth of Christ because I don't believe in that since lambs aren't out in the field of winter!
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Christmas traditions come from a variety of cultures. Holidays have always been appropriated from culture to culture. I think they speak to something eternally important to us all, because very few things persist for that long. For Christians, I think Christmas speaks to forgiveness and fellowship. A time where we can just sit back and appreciate family, and some good food and merry making ^_^ Merry Christmas!
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Agnostic here: The Christian holiday of Christmas has nothing to do with any pre-Christian holiday. Its placement, however, was to interfere with the Winter Solstice celebration of the earlier religion. The more likely time of birth of Jesus of Nazareth was sometime in the spring of 7 BCE. +5
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Not derived from it; replaced it.
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