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Subject HOLY POST - The Bible doesn’t say when Jesus was born, so why do we celebrate Christmas on December 25?

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It derives from a pagan holiday, Sol Invictus ("Unconquered Sun") who was the official sun god of the later Roman Empire  that was later incorporated into Christianity which is essentially a solar and star religion based on domesticating the barbarian man and women so we call all live in peace.

The date of December 25th for Christmas was selected in order to correspond with the Roman festival of Dies Natalis Solis Invicti, or "Birthday of the Unconquered Sun."

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thats absolute bullshit.

everyone before the romans came had a party on the solstice, no worship involved, no deities existed.

christianity was the first time we had the idea of a deity.
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This thread is related to Christmas and Jesus which was created by the Roman Empire to correlate with Sol Invictus. Christianity is based on AS ABOVE, SO BELOW where those who serve the Temple are honored as Saints.
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Original Message The most loudly touted theory about the origins of the Christmas date(s) is that it was borrowed from pagan celebrations. The Romans had their mid-winter Saturnalia festival in late December; barbarian peoples of northern and western Europe kept holidays at similar times. To top it off, in 274 C.E., the Roman emperor Aurelian established a feast of the birth of Sol Invictus (the Unconquered Sun), on December 25. Christmas, the argument goes, is really a spin-off from these pagan solar festivals. According to this theory, early Christians deliberately chose these dates to encourage the spread of Christmas and Christianity throughout the Roman world: If Christmas looked like a pagan holiday, more pagans would be open to both the holiday and the God whose birth it celebrated.

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