RE: Is it rational for, say, Muslims to not celebrate Christmas?
December 27, 2020 at 10:05 pm
(This post was last modified: December 27, 2020 at 10:07 pm by GrandizerII.)
So going back to this one (since more than one person here has repeated the claim that Christmas is of pagan origin):
Not even Saturnalia. The way Saturnalia was celebrated was significantly different from how modern Christmas is celebrated. Furthermore, many Christmas traditions we know of today originated fairly recently that it renders it even more a stretch to link Christmas back to pre-Christian paganism.
There are a couple traditions that one could strongly argue were pagan in origin, except these traditions are now obsolete. The pork's head is indeed an example.
For more details:
https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2019/1...as-really/
(December 23, 2020 at 7:39 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Technically, it was a pagan holiday called Saturnalia. The first known Christmas celebrations were in 336 AD in Rome. And while there are attestations of Yule happening around the 4th Century AD, Saturnalia was better-established by that point, having been around long enough that it had to be reformed 500 years prior and lasting up to the Christianisation of the Roman Empire. Not saying there weren't some things from Yule that Christians lovingly ripped off stole (caroling, a feast with pork as the main course, or the Yule log), just that there's a bigger influence here.
Not even Saturnalia. The way Saturnalia was celebrated was significantly different from how modern Christmas is celebrated. Furthermore, many Christmas traditions we know of today originated fairly recently that it renders it even more a stretch to link Christmas back to pre-Christian paganism.
There are a couple traditions that one could strongly argue were pagan in origin, except these traditions are now obsolete. The pork's head is indeed an example.
For more details:
https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2019/1...as-really/
