Thread:(P) Macabros77/@comment-25819845-20151218113018/@comment-26198454-20151225141559

@PBM. You would be very astonished.

Christmas was not among the earliest festivals of the Church ... the first evidence of the feast is from Egypt. Pagan customs, which were in January appointment, gravitated toward after Christmas. "Under" Birthday, "confessed Origin, an early Catholic writer," ... In the Scriptures, no one is mentioned, who has held a festival or big banquet on his birthday. Only sinners (like Pharaoh and Herod), holding a large Great Dens hard, on the date on which they were born into this world "(my emphasis). Almost all aspects of the Christmas ritual have their roots in Roman custom and religion. "The earliest reference showing where Christmas falls on the 25th of December, we will find in the second century after Jesus' birth is contemplated that probably the first Christmas party a response to Roman solstice was a harvest festival that marked the winter solstice - the return of the sun - and honored Saturn, the god of sowing Saturnalia was a time of boorish behavior, the great resistance of. the stricter conductors has been done under the still Christian sect. A scholar says Christmas evolved, as a means to replace the worship of the sun with the worship of the Son. In 529 AD, after Christianity had become the official state religion of the Roman Empire, made Emperor Justinian Christmas for State Festival The celebration of Christmas reached its peak -. some would say 'its worst moments' -. in the medieval period when it was a time of conspicuous consumption and indescribable orgies "