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  • LizKurz
    LizKurz Posts: 340 Member
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    I would venture its the same reason we celebrate birthdays. :)

    Having a winter festival, completely with Yule logs, decorating evergreens, and gift giving was around about 2000 years before the Christ was put into Christmas.

    Christmas began long before the birth of Jesus Christ. Alexander Hislop's book The Two Babylons explores many historical sources showing that the holiday precedes Christ by at least 2,000 years, as earlier mentioned (1957, pp. 97-98).
    A nativity celebration for pagan gods was observed near the winter solstice in both Syria and Egypt. Later, some 400 years before Christ, the Mithraic religion, centering on the Persian sun god Mithras, provided the foundation for the Christmas celebration. Mithraism became very popular in the Roman Empire, and many elements of its worship survive today in Roman Catholicism.

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