Has anyone here decided to stop celebrating Christmas?

Pagans have never celebrated the Birth of Christ except, of course, the Magi. Setting the date of Jesus’ birth on December 25 lies in the determination of Jesus’ death at Passover. Around 200 C.E., while Christians were still being persecuted by the Romans, Tertullian of Carthage calculated that the 14th of Nisan (the day of the crucifixion according to the Gospel of John in the Jewish lunar calendar) in the year Jesus died was equivalent to March 25 in the Roman (solar) calendar (Tertullian, Adversus Iudaeos 8).

This was later confirmed by St. Hippolytus of Rome and by St. Augustine in "De Trinitate" (iv, 5) which states, "Jesus died on the cross on March 25, the same day of the year as that on which He was conceived." Whether accurate or not, at the time, Jesus was believed to have been conceived and crucified on the same day of the year, March 25. So the date of Jesus' birth became exactly nine months later on December 25.

By the way, March 25 is still celebrated as the Feast of the Annunciation, the commemoration of Jesus’ conception. Whatever the real date of Jesus' birth really was, Christmas (the Mass of Christ) is (and always has been) the Eucharistic celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, God the Son. ==== Just because a Christian Holy Day lands near or on the same day of the year as a Pagan holiday does not mean that that Christian Holy Day is "based on Paganism" or is "worshiping Satan."

With the thousands of Pagan religions all over the world which have been practiced for thousands of years, there is probably at least one (if not more than one) Pagan holiday for everyday of the year. Using that logic: + Christians could never celebrate anything on any day of the year. + Anyone celebrating a loved one's birthday on April 20 is celebrating Hitler's birthday because coincidentally, Hitler was born on the same day.

With love in Christ.

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