Are you celebrating Christmas?

[Darwinian]

and I can't understand why this topic is in the Christianity section of the forum.

Because Christmas is traditionally a Christian festival. The clue is in the name

[Edwardo Piet]

Actually the 'Christ' in 'Christmas' doesn't derive from Jesus Christ and Christmas is nothing but a stolen Pagan festival.

[Darwinian]

The word Christmas originated as a compound meaning "Christ's Mass". It is derived from the Middle English Christemasse and Old English Cristes mæsse, a phrase first recorded in 1038.[8] "Cristes" is from Greek Christos and "mæsse" is from Latin missa (the holy mass). In Greek, the letter Χ (chi), is the first letter of Christ, and it, or the similar Roman letter X, has been used as an abbreviation for Christ since the mid-16th century.[16] Hence, Xmas is sometimes used as an abbreviation for Christmas.

- wiki

[Edwardo Piet]

Last I heard Christmas isn't etymologically to do with Christ. I think it was multiple sources and maybe one of them including QI. I can't remember anything more I don't think.

But since http://www.Etymonline.com seems to agree with Wiki I guess Wiki may be right afterall.

But anyway, Christmas is a stolen pagan festival.

And maybe Christ himself is plagiarized from Mithras and whatnot

[GANIMEDE]

The word Christmas originated as a compound meaning "Christ's Mass". It is derived from the Middle English Christemasse and Old English Cristes mæsse, a phrase first recorded in 1038.

Yes, we know that "Christmas" is the celebration of the "Anoited" i.e. "Cristos" etc. "Christ + Mass" etc.

But the actual celebration, which occurrs following the Mid-Winter Solstace, is probabbly the most ancient of all Pagan celebrations. It is the celebration of the lengthening of the days which begins after 22 December. The ancients lacked precise instruments, so the "verification" took a few days. Thus 25 December.

Emperor Constantine was a adherant of the Mythriac religion, popular among all the upper classes in the Empire. Christ with a bright halo surrounding his head is actually a depiction of Mythra, the sun deity. It was Constantines wife, a fanatic Christian, who talked her husband into adopting Christianity as the state religion. It was she who placed "Christs Birth" at 25 December. Pasting it over the ancient Roman holiday of SOLA VINCES, which was probably some sort of comprimise.