Why is Christmas on Dec. 25?

[NekoRightsActivist]

Christmas should be in January, fuck Capitalism, Papists and Heretics, Слава

 

[Mœbius]

Christmas is every single day, my Mongolian friend. It is for all times forever. Maybe if you make your golden hats tall enough you will come to understand these things. God bless you and your family, on this the best of days.

t. Papist.

 

[The Spice boi]

Cause Jesus slammed a hundred cold ones that day, and it was legendary

 

[Tsurubami Senri]

Cause Jesus was born on that day.

 

[Least Concern]

Because Christmas is just a Christian version of the winter solstice holidays celebrated by pretty much every other religion/culture throughout history.

 

[Zero Day Defense]

Because Christmas is just a Christian version of the winter solstice holidays celebrated by pretty much every other religion/culture throughout history.

Indeed, that's why it has nothing to do with the winter solstice and everything to do with being nine months out from when the Annunciation is celebrated.

 

[Miss Misery]

It should be in spring.

 

[Mr. Bung]

Biblical scholars seem to agree that Jesus was probably born in the spring due the the way the shepherds are described as watching their flocks.

Christmas is celebrated during the winter solstice period because so many pagan religions had a holiday at the time. For some centuries after the birth of Christianity there was a lot of competition with various Huwhite pagan religions that are rarely practiced now, so it slowly and tactfully assimilated certain aspects of those religions into itself to make it more easy or appealing to convert to. Everything was fair game as long as said aspects weren't in any way blasphemous or ran odd with the message of Christianity.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Winter solstice. Jesus was most likely not born in the winter.