Delta4Embassy
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no Christian holiday has pagan origins......they simply stole the day that pagans were already celebrating and used it for their own celebrations.......the fact that the pagans continued to do pagan things doesn't make Christianity pagan......It's pagan, ya know. I am amused when churches have Sunday services complete with easter egg hunts.
Most Christian holidays have pagan origins. If the Bible doesn't mention it, it's probably pagan. In an effort to get pagans to become Christian, the early Church allowed them to bring their various festivals and observances into Christianity. This was seen too in Judaism with the creation of some holidays like Chanukah which isn't anywhere in the Tanach. It's actually from Talmud which not all Jews follow (following Man instead of God et al.)
"Christians adopted Christmas
"The idea of a complete and clear-cut canon of the New Testament existing from the beginning, that is from Apostolic times, has no foundation in history.
The Canon of the New Testament, like that of the Old, is the result of a development, of a process at once stimulated by disputes with doubters, both within and without the Church, and retarded by certain obscurities and natural hesitations, and which did not reach its final term until the dogmatic definition of the Tridentine Council."
- Catholic Encyclopedia
For the first three centuries, the collective body of all Christians, including clerical knew little of the birthday of Jesus up until the 4th century, as currently there is still no Biblical evidence which even declares the birthday of Jesus as the 25th of December. There is simply no external historical confirmation for the story outside of the New Testament either with accounts being internally contradictive. "
The Pagan Origins of Jesus Christ and Christianity
"Pagan Origins of JC and Christianity"