I bet you didn’t know that the Bible says that Christmas trees are a sin, that Jesus
wasn’t actually born on dec 25th, that the Church banned Christmas, and Christmas traditions
are actually pagan.
Christmas is usually considered the archetypal holiday of Christianity but when you look
deeper you’ll see that couldn’t be further from the truth.
This is what the Church doesn’t want you to know about Christmas.
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Having been raised in a strict Christian household, Christmas was an important holiday.
But there are a ton of misconceptions about Christmas.
Before we look at the bible verse that condemns Christmas trees did you know Jesus Christ
wasn’t actually born on Dec 25th?
Christmas day, Dec 25th, was chosen to replace the Roman pagan holiday of the winter solstice
or “birthday of the unconquered sun.”
If you’re going by the Bible Jesus was most likely born during the spring or some other
warm month.
In fact, Christmas is basically a Christian replacement of various pagan holidays, which
is really ironic since many today claim that pagans are trying to get rid of Christmas.
One of the holidays on which Christmas draws its roots is the Roman Saturnalia, except
it was a lot more fun.
Saturnalia took place in December and it was a time of gift giving, drinking, sex, role
reversals, genderbending, and all kinds of fun.
Finally, on Dec 25th the birthday of the Roman sun god or sol Invictus was celebrated.
Christmas absorbed many of traditions of Saturnalia and replaced the Birth of Sol Invictus, the
sun god, with the birth of Jesus Christ, the son of god.
Yule is another pagan holiday that was given a makeover by Christianity and they absorbed
the traditions of the Yule log and Yule singing.
Many wiccans today celebrate Yule as the rebirth of the Great horned hunter god, which represents
the newborn solstice sun.
In fact, most Christmas traditions are rooted in paganism.
Fruitcake—the cake everyone loves to hate—originated in ancient Egypt.
Egyptians placed caked of honey and fermented fruit on the tombs of their loved ones so
they’d have a snack in the underworld.
Caroling began as a Germanic and Norse tradition where people got drunk as hell and then went
door to door singing to their neighbors good health.
Kissing under mistletoe?
Romans used to, have fertility rituals if you know what I mean under mistletoe.
Mistletoe also stood as a symbol neutrality for Norse tribes fighting each other.
They’d try to negotiate peacefully underneath the mistletoe.
What about wreaths?
Romans loved wreaths and used them everywhere.
You’ll find holly in many wreaths, which in Christianity represents the blood of Jesus
(don’t you find that weird, by the way?), but pagan groups believed that the holly king
did battle with the oak king and that holly could ward off evil spirits.
There’s not much original about Christmas and in the past it used to be a lot more chaotic.
In fact, Christmas got so crazy that at one point the Church banned it.
In 1647 English parliament banned Christmas saying that it was a waste of time and sinful.
Instead it was decreed that December 25 should be used for “fasting and humiliation”
for the repentance of sin.
Christmas decorations, feasting and celebration were banned.
The Church is so much fun isn’t it?
But it wasn’t only in England because in 1659 the Massachusetts Bay Colony made it
a criminal offense to celebrate Christmas and declared that “whosoever shall be found
observing any such day as Christmas or the like, either by forbearing of labor, feasting,
or any other way” would be fined.
People didn’t like this.
There was a lot of rioting and ultimately these bans didn’t last.
But the big question is, does the Bible say that Christmas is a sin?
Well, not directly of course.
Christmas wasn’t celebrated as a holiday when the Bible was written.
But there is a verse in the Bible that many claim says that it’s a sin to have a decorated
tree in your house.
Which, if that is true, would make Christmas trees a sin.
Let’s take a look at the verse.
“Thus says the Lord: “Learn not the way of the nations… for the customs of the peoples
are vanity.
A tree from the forest is cut down and worked with an axe by the hands of a craftsman.
They decorate it with silver and gold; they fasten it with hammer and nails so that it
cannot move.
Does this verse mean that having any kind of decorated tree in your house is a sin?
Some people think so.
Others believe that’s not what this verse means at all.
They believe this verse just means that you shouldn’t build any wooden idols.
What do you think?
In my opinion, it seems like this verse is referring to wooden idols.
But guess what?
Ultimately, I don’t care.
The fact is that we should use Christmas as a day to celebrate friends, relationships,
have fun and appreciate one another.
Don’t get caught up in the mindless consumerism and drama.
Have a tree or don’t have a tree, I don’t care.
Next time someone complains about a war on Christmas tell them to relax, go enjoy their
Egyptian tomb cake, and blow off some steam with a Roman fertility ritual under the mistletoe.
If you liked this video then check out my other video about this book the church banned
from the Bible that reveals angels are actually demons.
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