Famous people being wrong about Christmas being Pagan

BibleThinker

Mike Winger

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 21 December 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Someone should do a research paper about how gullible people are when it comes to believing that things are Pagan in origin. Hey, I used to think so too. I swallowed this stuff quite easily and didn't realize until years later that I had pointlessly criticized things I didn't understand. My website: https://BibleThinker.org

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0:00.0	So the 25th date, there's a lot of debate about this and there's a lot of like mythy stuff online
0:06.1	about how the reason why we celebrate December 25th is because it was Mithras's birthday,
0:11.2	which is this pagan god who killed a bull. That's pretty much what we know about Mithras's birthday, which is this pagan god who killed a bull.
0:13.8	That's pretty much what we know about Mithras.
0:15.1	But supposedly he was born on December 25th.
0:17.1	Are you saying that was written in history?
0:19.0	That was written down in history, as I was just saying?
0:20.3	Absolutely.
0:21.3	There's the Persian god Mithras 600 years before Christ born December 25th.
0:26.2	As far as I know we have and I have looked at this we have no record of Mithras his
0:30.3	having a birthday celebration of any kind, let alone on December 25th.
0:34.0	Others say it was Saturnalia, the Roman celebration of Saturnalia, where they did all this weird stuff.
0:39.0	Hey Sheldon, are you in Leonard putting up a Christmas tree?
0:42.0	No, because we don't celebrate the ancient pagan festival of Saturnalia.
0:46.0	But the Saturnalia was a festival that was several days long.
0:50.0	During one period of time, it was excuse me was shorter later it became a longer
0:55.0	celebration but guess what it started and ended before December 25th it was never
0:59.5	on December 25th so that's off the table. So there is one ancient record that has a specific
1:06.6	pagan holiday type event that happened on December 25th and it's called
1:10.5	Soul Invictus. December 25th is not and it's called soul in victims
1:13.4	December 25th is not even in the Bible
1:15.9	that date December 25th came after soul and victus
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