The Winter Solstice was Dec. 22, next year it is the 23rd,why are the Atheists still comparing it to Christmas?

According to mine, the solstice is the 21st next year. I mean, what do you think the whole 12/21/12 stuff is about? Not the 23rd.

Nobody is comparing it to Christmas, by the way, just pointing out that it isn't Christ's birthday. I don't understand your point?

The solstice (lowest point of the sun) is around dec 22nd. The RETURN of the sun is observed on dec 25th. Christians have confused the SUN with their deity, the SON.

It's a historical fact that the date of christmas was made to coincide with the celebration of the winter solstice. It's not open to debate.

Saturnalia was an ancient Roman festival in honor of the deity Saturn originally held December 17 and later expanded with unofficial festivities through December 23. The renewal of light and the coming of the new year was celebrated in the later Roman Empire at the Dies Natalis of Sol Invictus, the "Birthday of the Unconquerable Sun," on December 25. Any more questions?

Whoever heard of a festival moving dates! That's just absurd. Well, except easter of course, but then that's CHRISTIAN meaning it's the one and only exception to the rules which must be strictly enforced for everything else.

They span more than one day, as opposed to the single time slot you Christians tried to hijack for your faerie tale.

Christians know Jesus wasn't born on Christmas, yet they pretend he was. Why ask pretentious questions when a Christians faith derives from derivatives.

The Roman 5-day Saturnalia festival was a solstice festival, ending on Dec. 25th (its "big day"). That's the festival the church replaced with "christmas," and made its "big day" the made-up birthday of magic jesus.Peace.

Is the reason that you post like you do that you cannot beleive in a loving god or act like it?!

Because the Pagan celebration Sol Invictus was placed on December 25th based on the solstice's approximate time frame. This celebration is where the church stole the date from.

Because it's a celebration. Merry Christmas to you anyway.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.