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- gramme0
What about the fact that Christmas just happens to be on the exact same day as a number of much older, Pagan holidays? Seems like kinda a strange coincidence, no?
ukit
(Oct 17 07, 14:04)That's old news. Nobody is sure on the exact dates of Christmas and Easter. In western Europe, the traditional dates for these Christian holidays came about because the early Roman Catholic church decided to try and push out pagan holidays by using the same dates for Christian holidays: the winter solstice celebration becomes Christmas (with it's old multiple days of celebration), Beltain (Celtic springtime holiday, I believe) becomes Easter, not to mention Halloween which was a very poorly masked Samhain (Celtic harvest).