I’m hosting family this week for Christmas, and I don’t have time to work on a new blog article. Here is a rerun.
Christmas is a pagan holiday that probably originated during the Pleistocene. Many of the pagan traditions associated with Christmas are rooted in northern European mythology, and they predate written records, so historians have no way of knowing for sure when they began. However, the celebration of the winter solstice was widespread throughout the ancient world, and people enjoyed this holiday thousands of years before the Judeo-Christian bible was ever written. The wise men of the primitive world believed that the sun was a God. This actually makes more sense than what the Abrahamic religions claim because life on earth does depend upon the sun. The Abrahamic religions propose that a Supreme Being created the sun, but this belief leaves one to wonder who created the Supreme Being. In a culture without scientific knowledge paganism seems just as logical if not more so than Judeo-Christianity.
The ancient thinkers noticed the days became shorter during…
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