MERRY CHRISTMAS - Part 2

The Origin Of Christmas

The date of December 25th comes from ancient Rome and was a celebration of a pagan god, Saturn. This was done long before the birth of Jesus. There was a cause for much wild excitement and celebration. Gift giving and merriment filled the temples of ancient Rome, as sacred priests of Saturn carried wreaths of evergreen boughs in procession, in celebration of a sun god who rose from the dead. This, they figured to be the reason for increasing daylight.


The ancient Greek writer, poet and historian Lucian (in his dialogue entitled Saturnalia) describes the festival’s observance in his time. In addition to human sacrifice, he mentions these customs… widespread intoxication; going from house to house while singing naked; rape and other sexual license; and consuming human-shaped biscuits (still produced in some English and most German bakeries during the Christmas season).

In Germany, the evergreen tree was used in worship and celebration of the Yule god Freyr, also in observance of the resurrected sun god. The evergreen tree was a symbol of the essence of life and was regarded as a phallic symbol in fertility worship. Witches and other pagans regarded the red holly as a symbol of the menstrual blood of the queen of heaven, also known as Diana. The holly wood was used by witches to make wands. The white berries of mistletoe were believed by pagans to represent droplets of the semen of the sun god.

Both holly and mistletoe were hung in doorways of temples and homes to invoke powers of fertility in those who stood beneath and kissed, causing the spirits of the god and goddess to enter them. These customs went beyond the borders of Rome and Germany into all the world. These "representatives" of abominable traditions is what Christians welcome into their homes.




The question would be: 
How did all of these customs find their way into Christianity, ranging from Catholicism to Protestantism to fundamentalist churches?






The word "Christmas" itself reveals who married paganism to Christianity. The word "Christmas" is a combination of the words "Christ" and "Mass". The word "Mass" was coined originally by the Roman Catholic Church, and belongs exclusively to the church of Rome. The ritual of the Mass involves the death of Christ, over and over again I might add. Christmas is strictly a Roman Catholic word.

A simple study of the tactics of the Roman Church reveals that in every case, the church absorbed the customs, traditions and general paganism of every tribe, culture and nation in their efforts to increase the number of people under their control. The Roman church told all of these pagan cultures, “Bring your gods, goddesses, rituals and rites, and we will assign Christian sounding titles and names to them.” When Martin Luther started the reformation on October 31st, 1517, and other reformers followed his lead, all of them took with them the paganism that was so firmly embedded in Rome. These reformers left Christmas intact.

In England, as the authorized Bible became available to the common people by the decree of King James II in 1611, people began to discover the pagan roots of Christmas, which are clearly revealed in Scripture. The Puritans in England, and later in Massachusetts Colony, outlawed this holiday as witchcraft. Near the end of the nineteenth century, when other Bible versions began to appear, there was a revival of the celebration of Christmas. We are now seeing an ever-increasing pagan celebration of Christmas or Yule, its true name, as we draw closer to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

In both witchcraft circles and contemporary Christian churches, the same things are going on with regard to Christmas.

Thus saith the Lord, learn not the way of the heathen; and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven. For the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people are vain. For one cutteth a tree out of the forest. The work of the hands of the workman with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold. They fasten it with nails and with hammers that it move not. Jeremiah 10:2-4.

It is amazing to me that we would abhor the thought of keeping Passover, but we have no problem immersing ourselves in Christmas. I liken this tolerance by Christians in general, to Christians who are democrats, the party of abortion and homosexualism... and really lawlessness in general. How can you?