Christmas Is A Lie! Find Out What The Real Christmas Is

Disclaimer

If you want to know the truth keep reading, if you rather live in ignorant bliss please don’t read this article, I do not want to insult or upset you, by reading this you may not enjoy Christmas any more, or you may see it in a different light and perhaps enjoy it more than you ever did before - for the remainder of your life.

Shopathon

I am proposing renaming Christmas and calling it Shopathon because that is all what people do in preparation for xmas, they shop. Everybody agrees that Christmas has been highly commercialized in the U.S. Many say that it has lost its true meaning of celebrating Jesus’ birthday.

In fact, Christmas in the US and most the western Christian tradition does not fall on the correct date of Jesus’ birthday, so what are WE celebrating? Are we celebrating a lie?

The fact is, no one knows for sure when Jesus was born, it is likely though that the real Christmas was in the spring, not winter.

Winter Celebrations

Why then does Christmas fall on Dec 25? Well, when Christianity spread in lands that practiced paganism, naturally pagan practices and traditions were not appreciated by christian leaders. Winter celebrations were major traditions that pagans would not abandon. They had to be re-named and adopted by the, then new religion, Christianity.

Winter Solstice falls on Dec 25th and was one major pagan holiday celebration.

Dies Natalis Solis Invicti means “the birthday of the unconquered Sun.” The use of the title Sol Invictus allowed several solar deities to be worshipped collectively, including Elah-Gabal, a Syrian sun god; Sol, the god of Emperor Aurelian; and Mithras, a soldiers’ god of Persian origin. Emperor Elagabalus introduced the festival, and it reached the height of its popularity under Aurelian, who promoted it as an empire-wide holiday. This day had held no significance in the Roman festive calendar until it was introduced in the third century.

The festival was placed on the date of the solstice because this was on this day that the Sun reversed its southward retreat and proved itself to be “unconquered.” Several early Christian writers connected the rebirth of the sun to the birth of Jesus. “O, how wonderfully acted Providence that on that day on which that Sun was born

From Wikipedia

You are probably seeing where this is going now. Rather than abolish these traditions they were allowed to remain only after re-purposing and re-branding them into a Christian tradition.

Winter festivals were common in ancient times due to less agricultural work, expectations of better weather in the summer and the celebration of the rebirth of the sun as the sun lasted longer in the sky (a countdown to summer).

The Roman Pagans

Roman pagans celebrated the holiday of Saturnalia. This was a week-long period of lawlessness celebrated between December 17-25. During this period, Roman courts were closed, and Roman law dictated that no one could be punished for damaging property or injuring people during the week-long celebration. This holiday featured some ‘bad’ behavior to say the least like drinking to get drunk, sexual indulgence, singing naked in the streets (later morphing into the modern caroling).

In what seems to be even more horrible, each Roman community selected a victim. This person was forced to indulge in food and other physical pleasures throughout the week. On December 25th (the festival’s last day), this person was brutally murdered. Roman authorities believed they were destroying the forces of darkness by doing so.

Saturnalia festival was a major festival that pagans would not abandon. In order to convert pagans to Christianity it was decided to adopt the Sturnalia festival. As a result a large numbers of pagans became Christian after being promised to be allowed to continue celebrating the Saturnalia festival.

Since there was no significance to that date of the year, Christian leaders named Saturnalia’s concluding day, December 25th, to be Jesus’ birthday replacing the original festival’s concluding day

The Scandinavian Pagans

Pagan Scandinavians celebrated a winter festival called Yule, held in the late December to early January period. As Northern Europe was the last part to Christianize, its pagan traditions had a major influence on Christmas. Scandinavians still call Christmas Jul. In English, the word Yule is synonymous with Christmas.

You see? We are not celebrating the real Christmas (Jesus’ b’day) on Dec 25.

Winter Festivals were very common! Here are but a few examples:

Brazilians

Brazilian archeologists have found an assembly of 127 granite blocks arranged equidistant from each other. They apparently form an ancient astronomical observatory. One of the stones marked the position of the sun at the time of the winter solstice and were probably used in religious rituals.

Egyptians

The god-man/savior Osiris died and was entombed on DEC-21. “At midnight, the priests emerged from an inner shrine crying ‘The Virgin has brought forth! The light is waxing” and showing the image of a baby to the worshipers.”

Greek

The winter solstice ritual was called Lenaea, the Festival of the Wild Women. In very ancient times, a man representing the harvest god Dionysos was torn to pieces and eaten by a gang of women on this day. Later in the ritual, Dionysos would be reborn as a baby. By classical times, the human sacrifice had been replaced by the killing of a goat. The women’s role had changed to that of funeral mourners and observers of the birth.

Inca’s

The ancient Incas celebrated a festival if Inti Raymi at the time of the Winter Solstice. It celebrates “the Festival of the Sun where the god of the Sun, Wiracocha, is honored.” 16 Ceremonies were banned by the Roman Catholic conquistadores in the 16th century as part of their forced conversions of the Inca people to Christianity. A local group of Quecia Indians in Cusco, Peru revived the festival about 1950. It is now a major festival which begins in Cusco and proceeds to an ancient amphitheater a few miles away.

Native American

The Hopi tribe “is dedicated to giving aid and direction to the sun which is ready to ‘return’ and give strength to budding life.” Their ceremony is called “Soyal.” It lasts for 20 days and includes “prayerstick making, purification, rituals and a concluding rabbit hunt, feast and blessing…”

Find more ancient and pagan winter celebrations that fell on winter solstice (i.e. Dec the 25th): http://www.religioustolerance.org/winter_solstice.htm

You see, the real Christmas (Jesus’ b’day) is NOT on Dec 25. The winter celebration is simply a winter celebration that has been observed by cultures for ions and called so many names.

A Lie

The commonly celebrated Christmas is a lie. There is no Christian church with a tradition that Jesus was really born on December 25th.

In fact, many of the most popular Christmas customs – including Christmas trees, mistletoe, Christmas presents, merrymaking, and Santa Claus – are modern incarnations of pagan rituals.

It is a known fact that as religions rise and spread in the lands they adopt mythology, stories and traditions of the lands thus changing the core of such religions. This is another topic that we shall leave for a different time.

On to Our Modern Day (Main Stream) Christmas

Similarly to Scandinavians and Romans, in our modern day, Christmas has also been adopted and altered, this time it was adopted by Capitalism. Now it is a Holiday for all, as long as you can BUY STUFF you deserve to celebrate Christmas. In other words, You the consumer will buy from retailers on Christmas. It is a consumer holiday, the holiday of the mighty dollar.

Losing the Reason for the Season

Many Christians complain that the real meaning of Christmas has been forgotten and they urge people to remember the ‘Reason for the Season’. The irony here is that, the reason for the season is NOT.

Jesus’ birth was Not in winter it was in the spring.

Thus, the real season is the Spring and the real reason was to spread Christianity by adopting and re-forming pagan traditions.

If anything, Christmas in its most original and basic form was (and thus is) a pagan holiday.

More Lies & Hypocrisy

Santa clause is one lie that we all try and convince our kids to believe. I still do not understand one’s motivation for making such a lie. perhaps because I never beleived these lies even as a kid?

I did not care much for Santa clause or gifts when I was 7 years old; I still don’t. It sickens me how Christmas is commercialized, not because it dilutes the real reason for the season, but because it is wasteful and in so many ways more pagan than anything Christian or remotely spiritual, responsible or enlightened.

Main stream Christmas is 100% material and 0% Spiritual. It stands against everything Jesus taught.

Buy Buy Buy

Buying ‘crap’ [made in China] is yet another cultural norm that is widely accepted by people without much thought and then forced on the rest of us who feel no desire to celebrate by buying.

Any enlightened being will see this. I am not trying to dampen your joy or mess up your tradition.

Family Event

In fact, Christmas is a welcomed family event, especially that it falls in the winter when most of us are not so thrilled about the weather. Christmas as I see it is a time to be with loved ones, to reflect on the past, to anticipate the summer, to appreciate what you have, and to celebrate winter solstice.

One should not blindly follow mainstream x-mas traditions and you should remain aware of the real x-mas by knowing the history behind our modern day Christmas. One should do all one can to not get suckered into the buying frenzy. If you have to  buy gifts look for local, American made, and less pulluting gift options.

Claim It

Claim Christmas and take it back, customize it to align with your own beliefs. Finally, speak out, seeing a lie but remaining silent makes you an accomplice in that lie.

Traditions can be good, they can be better if they are informed and ethically responsible.

The Real Reason for the Season

Make it a Spiritual One

Now that you know the truth behind Christmas, feel free to celebrate it, just remember the real history, and make Christmas special to YOU. Do not follow the crowds blindly. Celebrate the holidays, celebrate winter solstice, and celebrate in a spiritual and meaningful way that is unique, special, personal and non shopaholic.

Gifts Are Bad

My last comment here is about Gifts. Gifts are a luxury that people, like you, take for granted. I urge you to please take a minute and meditate on gifts.

Why do you buy them? What do you gain? What does the person receiving the gift gain? Finally, what is the collateral damage of every person buying and giving gifts?

If you want to show love to someone, spending time together in nature, next to a fire place, or even taking a simple walk can be more precious than any gift money can buy. Writing a letter from the heart means much more than a gift. There are so many things you could do without buying a gift that will be more environmentally, socially and spiritually responsible.

Gifts Are Forgotten

Look back 10 years / look back to your childhood, do you remember your gifts? Who gave them to you? I know I don’t.

What is it that you remember the most? Is it the people? the event? the gathering? the fun? the location? You remember all of these but NOT the gift.

I am not anti capitalism. I am against soulless, brainless consumerism.

Capitalizing

People will capitalize on every special occasion, from weddings, birthdays, valentines day, graduation, to funerals. In other words, if you can spend money there will be someone out there who will make sure to convince you that you MUST spend money. You must spend to be loved. While the real truth is that we seek real love, real love is manifested in companionship and time spent together NOT in money and material gifts.

This is my humble opinion, you may disagree, but then I think that one day when you reach certain levels of awareness my words will ring true in your ears.

BE FREE

This article is here to help you be free from the mind control and lies that so many want you to live. Be free to be the individual that you are, make up intelligent decisions and live life fully in a spiritual and REAL way, un-apologetically. Do not be a mindless shopper just shopping when asked to and when others demand that you do.

Don’t Agree With Me

That’s fine, just think about this last aspect of Christmas and tell me how you could disagree

Christmas Is Harmful To Nature

Boxes, gift wrapping, gas for shipping gifts from china to the US, from the US to the mall, from them mall to your house, or USPS. Wasted energy, pollution and trash that can ALL be avoided. Driven by the desire to make money people will package things, ship them, waste and waste ans waste. When our goal is to sell products we tend to neglect the environmental impact that we set off.

The sad part is that all of this is not necessary, your rights or obligations to buy gifts and celebrate events are a luxury; they are neither rights not obligations.

If you have kids, don’t indoctrinate them into cultural norms. Don’t teach them their right to own everything they want because that IS not a right, it is only reckless, mindless, selfish and uninformed behavior that will ultimately harm your kids. Teach them their rights to live free and their responsibility to be informed.

Shopathon is a much more appropriate name for our modern day Winter Solstice or Christmas

Your comments are most welcome.

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I’m writing this here to bounce this idea off you, any suggestions you wanna share?

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Third: Lack of physical and spiritual fitness.

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I have nobody else in the world that understands that sensation. It is like what you described, except mine is rather different than yours.

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Honor them now by remembering them and send them good wishes. On a day like this it is worth remembering that you will also die some day, embrace this fact and do not fear. If you don’t know what death is then embrace not knowing and accept it as it is, it is a natural part of living. If you beleive in the after life or reincarnation then you know that death is just a part of a much larger journey.

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