Comment on Where do British Christmas traditions really come from?
MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
What an awfully written and excessively reductionist article.
Arguing against Christmas as a Christian or Consumerist occasion would have been a better use of their time.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Christmas is a Christian holiday, though. The whole “it was pagan” myth has been largely debunked
piccolo@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Debunked? Sure… it was just a coincidence the Romans held were doing christmas-like activities on dec 25th. and it wasnt limited to just one. But there were others.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 day ago
christianhistoryinstitute.org/…/ff-christmas
piccolo@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Totally pure conciendence he choose march 25th as the day of conception. (Spring equinox) which meant jesus would be born around winter solstice. Despite the evidence in the bible would strongly disagree with a winter birth. There may not be direct influence, but previous traditions most certainly influenced Christian traditions.
stsquad@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
A lot of peoples have had some sort of festival in the depths of winter around the time of the solstice.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 day ago
A lot of cultures had festivals at a lot of time periods in the year. For example, the Christian harvest festival generally coincides with the Chinese mid-autumn festival.
The general explanation for Christmas is that Jesus was believed to have been conceived on the 25th of March. Either this is due to it being the spring equinox and “the day the world was created” or because it was believed at one point to be the date He died and thus had a cycle of life thing going on.
MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Thats what I said. I said it is either a Christian or Consumerist occasion.