Merry Christmas Holiday

Over time, this has become a non-religious holiday!

In the Western world, rolls of brightly-colored paper with secular or religious Christmas motifs are manufactured for the purpose of wrapping gifts. Christmas , also referred to as Christmas Day or Christmastide, is an annual holiday celebrated on December 25 that marks and honors the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. Religious leaders protested this move, with a New York Times roundup of Christmas sermons showing the most common theme as the dangers of an increasingly commercial Christmas.

Father Christmas, who predates the Santa Claus character, was first recorded in the 15th century, but was associated with holiday merrymaking and drunkenness.

In pagan Germania , the equivalent holiday was the mid-winter night which was followed by 12″wild nights “, filled with eating, drinking and partying. These writers imagined Tudor Christmas as a time of heartfelt celebration, and efforts were made to revive the holiday.

Some considered the U.S.

ChristiaNet.com, the world’s largest Christian portal with twelve million monthly page loads, recently asked, “Has Christmas turned into a Pagan Holiday?”

Leave it to Christians to “blam Pagans” for THEIR holiday becoming superficial. If they are so bent out of shape about Pagans and christmas, then why did they choose to celebrate Christs birthday five days after we celebrate the birth of Our God?? Most Christian holidays are actually based on Pagan celebrations, including Christmas which was originally the celebration of the Yule and the winter solstice.

For plenty of people, Christmas is no longer a religious holiday either.

The modern Christmas tree tradition is believed to have begun in Germany in the 18th century though many argue that Martin Luther began the tradition in the 16th century. In her 1850 book “The First Christmas in New England”, Harriet Beecher Stowe includes a character who complains that the true meaning of Christmas was lost in a shopping spree.

In the U.S., the “Christmas shopping season” generally begins on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, though many American stores begin selling Christmas items as early as October. George Washington attacked Hessian mercenaries on Christmas during the Battle of Trenton in 177

After the conversion of Anglo-Saxon Britain in the very early 7th century, Christmas was referred to as geol, the name of the pre-Christian winter festival from which the current English word ‘ Yule ‘ is derived. In English, the Germanic word Yule is synonymous with Christmas, a usage first recorded in 90 The word Christmas originated as a contraction of”Christ’s mass “. Following the Parliamentarian victory over King Charles I during the English Civil War, England’s Puritan rulers banned Christmas, in 164 King Edmund the Martyr was anointed on Christmas in 855 and King William I of England was crowned on Christmas Day 106 In England and Wales, the Christmas Day Act 2004 prevents all large shops from trading on Christmas Day. In some traditions the 12 days of Christmas start on Christmas Day and the 12th day is therefore 5 January. The prominence of Christmas Day increased gradually after Charlemagne was crowned Emperor on Christmas Day in 80 For other uses, see Christmas and Christmas Day . Christmas was promoted in the Christian East as part of the revival of Catholicism following the death of the pro- Arian Emperor Valens at the Battle of Adrianople in 37

Modern Christmas with pagan customs include: gift-giving and merrymaking from Roman Saturnalia ; greenery, lights, and charity from the Roman New Year ; and Yule logs and various foods from Teutonic feasts.

Christmas banners may be hung from street lights and Christmas trees placed in the town square. “Christmas lights and community building in America,” History Matters, Spring 200 In Australia, North and South America, and to a lesser extent Europe, it is traditional to decorate the outside of houses with lights and sometimes with illuminated sleighs, snowmen, and other Christmas figures.

Christmas decorations are traditionally taken down on Twelfth Night, the evening of January The Restoration of Charles II in 1660 ended the ban, but many clergymen still disapproved of Christmas celebration.

The Twelve Days of Christmas are the twelve days from the day after Christmas Day, December 26, which is St. In the Latin Rite, one week after Christmas Day, January 1, has traditionally been the celebration the Feast of the Naming and Circumcision of Christ, but since Vatican II, this feast has been celebrated as the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God. Excerpt from Josiah King’s The Examination and Trial of Father Christmas , published shortly after Christmas was reinstated as a holy day in England.

The holiday is widely celebrated around the world, including in the United States, where it is celebrated by 96% of the population.

We made it at the end of December to coincide with the winter pagan festival so that early Christians wouldnt be prosecuted for their faith by conspicuously celebrating different holidays than the ruling pagans.

There is a classic rock/oldie song that whoever made it, did another version with the same exact tune, but with christmas lyrics.