The following is an encore presentation of Everything Everywhere Daily.

Every year, people around the world celebrate Christmas on December 25th.

In many countries, it's the biggest single holiday of the year.

Why is it celebrated on December 25th?

Is there any historical basis for the state?

And if not, then why do we celebrate it on this date?

Learn more about why we celebrate Christmas when we do on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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The first thing that's necessary to establish is that there is nothing documented in any

writing from the Bible or other ancient sources, which gives a date for the birth of Jesus.

Nothing. It isn't even implied or hinted at. So for all practical purposes, we really have no idea what day or even what month Jesus was born.

Then, why do we celebrate it on December 25th? To a certain extent, any day that was chosen would be just as good as the next if you don't know what the real date is. It would be an arbitrary choice.

But December 25th isn't arbitrary. There's a good reason why it was picked.

Initially, in the very early Christian church, during the first two centuries of its existence,

there is no mention or indication that the birth of Jesus was celebrated.

The first known date we have of a December 25th celebration of the birth of Jesus is in the year

336 during the reign of Emperor Constantine. Constantine, as I've mentioned in previous episodes,

brought Christianity out from being an underground religion. Many of the traditions of early Christians

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