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 the state. Learn more

about why we celebrate Christmas when we do on this episode of Everything Everywhere

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Silent Night, The Remarkable

1914 Christmas truce by Stanley Weintraub.

In the beginning months of World War I,

a very strange thing happened.

After the fierce trench warfare of November and December, on Christmas Eve 1914, the fighting spontaneously stopped.

Men on both sides lay down their arms and came to celebrate Christmas with each other.

They shared food parcels across the lines, saying carols together,

and erected Christmas trees with candles. They buried the dead, exchanged presents, and even played soccer together.

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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.

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