Christmas !
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Joined: 02-01-2006
Posts: 2,300
From: Groveville, NJ
Originally Posted by BIG JIM WOODMAN
can't call it christmas, can't smack my kids, can't cuss. can't can't can't. i'm going back to drugs and drinkin, j/k
That was worse then the remark I was talking about!!
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Joined: 07-06-2006
Posts: 155
From: N.Y.
Originally Posted by Holmes Hot Ride
You know Jesus is the reason for the season! Christmas means Christ Mass.
Right on! I compleatly cool with anyone's beliefs, but it has become evident as of recently that our society is attaking religeon. I don't push my religeon on others, so why do the anti-religeon people try to push their beliefs??? They don't like it when we do it. It makes them just as bad. It's a touchy situation for sure.
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Joined: 10-14-2005
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From: Rochester,N.Y.
WTF are you talking about Holmes! 
Here is where Christmas really came from :
Christmas has its origins in several pagan holidays. The celebration known as Saturnalia included the making and giving of small presents (saturnalia et sigillaricia). This holiday was observed over a series of days beginning on December 17 (the birthday of Saturn) and ending on December 25 (the birthday of Sol Invictus, the "unconquered sun"). The combined festivals resulted in an extended winter holiday season. Business was postponed and even slaves feasted. There was drinking, gambling, and singing, and nudity was relatively common. It was the "best of days," according to the poet Catullus.
During the time in which Christianity was spreading throughout the Roman Empire, another similar religion known as Mithraism was also gaining widespread acceptance. The followers of Mithraism worshipped Mithras, a god of Persian origin, who was identified with Sol Invictus. The followers of Mithraism, consequently, adopted the birthday of Sol Invictus as the birthday of Mithras. In 274 AD, due to the popularity of Mithraism, Emperor Aurelian designated December 25 as the festival of Sol Invictus.
We're celebrating a pagan holiday just like most of our holidays.
Christians made it about Christ, just like everything else in this world! 
Here is where Christmas really came from :Christmas has its origins in several pagan holidays. The celebration known as Saturnalia included the making and giving of small presents (saturnalia et sigillaricia). This holiday was observed over a series of days beginning on December 17 (the birthday of Saturn) and ending on December 25 (the birthday of Sol Invictus, the "unconquered sun"). The combined festivals resulted in an extended winter holiday season. Business was postponed and even slaves feasted. There was drinking, gambling, and singing, and nudity was relatively common. It was the "best of days," according to the poet Catullus.
During the time in which Christianity was spreading throughout the Roman Empire, another similar religion known as Mithraism was also gaining widespread acceptance. The followers of Mithraism worshipped Mithras, a god of Persian origin, who was identified with Sol Invictus. The followers of Mithraism, consequently, adopted the birthday of Sol Invictus as the birthday of Mithras. In 274 AD, due to the popularity of Mithraism, Emperor Aurelian designated December 25 as the festival of Sol Invictus.
We're celebrating a pagan holiday just like most of our holidays.
Christians made it about Christ, just like everything else in this world!
