A Look At Christmas!!!!

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Well the world did not end today, so I guess I will continue to write blogs!!!!


Christmas is in a few days, and I want to take a closer look at the holiday. Many people celebrate Christmas as the day Yahshua (Jesus) was born, but actually Yahshua was not born on December 25, or even close, but he was born probably around September, and the reason many think it is September is, because in the Bible it is written that the shepherds were tending to their flock, so it had to be during a warmer month Christmas, which is seen as a Christian holiday actually did not start off that way, but started off as a pagan holiday.


To continue, originally Christmas was a week long pagan holiday that took place between the 17-25 called Saturnalia; During this week all the courts in Rome were closed, and it was a week of lawlessness in which it is said men would get drunk, beat their wives, exchange gifts, have sex with each other, and injure people with out having to worry at all about the law. Each City in The Roman Empire would choose one person to be the enemy of the Roman people, and to represent the Lord of Misrule; this person was forced to indulge in food and other physical pleasures, and on the last day of Saturnalia The Roman authorities thought they were fighting off the forces of evil by brutally murdering the person despite the fact he, or she was forced by the Romans to do all this, and was more than likely innocent. So the question you might be asking is "well how than did Christmas go from being a pagan holiday to being about the birth of Yahshua?


Third,, the reason for the change from being a pagan holiday to a day seen as the birth of Yahshua is, because when the Catholic church started to get more power, and wanted to convert the pagans into Christians they decided to keep many pagan holidays such as Christmas, and Easter, but change the meaning of the day, because they thought by keeping these holidays it would help to convert more pagans by giving them a holiday in which they were use to, however Many don't even celebrate Christmas, because they think it honours the birth of Yahshua,




furthermore. Many people around the world simply do the Christmas thing as a time of putting up a Christmas tree, leaving gifts for others, doing the whole Santa thing, and so on. In a way this form of celebration has become what Christmas is about as most films, T.V specials, and when people talk about Christmas has more to do with the whole Santa thing than the birth of Yahshua thing. Now many traditions are said to come from this form of celebration of Christmas, but how true are they actually?


pursuing this further, you hear of many traditions of Christmas, and sayings such as "it's better to give than receive" but we need to look at things with truth, because while many people say it is better to give than receive they would rather receive than give. Than we have Christmas stories such as Rudolf the Rednosed Reindeer, a story about a deer with a glowing red nose that saves Christmas after a massive snow storm, and many peopel think of this as a Christmas story that has been passed on from generation to generation (which it has been since it has been around a while now), but actually it has not been around as long as many people think, and was a story created by Montgomery Ward; a retail store. In a way you can say Christmas is nothing more today than a way for retail stores to make money.


Basically, Christmas is a day as seen as being "the most wonderful time of the year" but in truth it is a time of the year were the retail stores such as Wal Mart make the most money, and things are not really wonderful, but stressful as people try to find the must get item of the year. The day starts off pretty much on black Friday; which is ironic, because black Friday is a day in which everyone goes nuts, and pretty much says to the other people f*ck you as they try to get gifts for people, and it's ironic, because black Friday takes place the day after we are giving thanks, Thanksgiving, so on Thursday it's thank you, but on the Friday after it's F*ck you. I don't really care how anyone celebrates Christmas for the most part, but I do have a problem with Christmas in the following way.

Generally, I could care less about how people do their Christmas thing weather it's to celabrate the birth of Yahshua, or they do the Santa thing, because pretty much no one does the pagan type way anymore, but I do have this problem with Christmas; you always hear of santa watching the kids, and how he only gives gifts to those boys, and girls that have been good, and leaves coal for those that have been bad; now you might think that's a good thing, but if you look at that deeper you will see it actually is not a good thing, because think of it this way let's say a kid has been bad his parents aren't going to not get that kid gifts, but they still will get him, or her gifts, so the kid that has been bad still gets gifts, and this could lead them to thinking they were good when they were not, so down the road they will still do bad things, because they might think their being good, but lets look at this from the other side of the coin let's say a kid is good, but their parents are simply too poor to get them anything, so the kid gets no gifts despit them being good, so this could make them feel like they were bad even though they were not, and lead them to start doing bad, because they think they already were doing bad, and so maybe by them changing and doing bad they would think they're doing good.


In final analysis, Christmas was a pagan holiday that has grown to be about many different things, and although it is a time of joy the truth is it is filled with much stress, and is not a time free from problems, but really only creates more.



Thank you for your time, and for reading this post,
I love you all deeply.
Your Friend,
VPK