Why have Christians stolen Midwinters Eve from 20th December and renamed it Christmas Eve on the 24th?

Christmas is nothing to do with either Christianity or Islam but it does have it's origins in the midwinter festival and many other basically pagan rites but since much of it is a celebration of nature rather than religion everyone should be able to enjoy it and be happy together despite religion!

The ancient European pagans celebrated the midwinter festival and a number of other festivals long before Christianity ever existed!

Babylonians celebrated the feast of the Son of Isis with gluttonous eating and drinking, and gift giving and the goddess of fertility, love, and war.

The Romans held a festival on 25 December called “Dies Natalis Solis Invicti, celebrating their own god Sol Invictas – PAGAN!

The Persian god Mithras, the Syrian sun god Elah Gabal, the German Sol, the Greek Helios and the Mesopotamian Shamash. But also Saturnalia, honouring Saturn, the God of Agriculture. The law courts and schools were closed. No public business could be transacted an this is where the holidays originated - ALL PAGAN!

Wax tapers were given by the more humble to their superiors. The origin of the Christmas candle - PAGAN!

In Rome groups of costumed went from house to house entertaining their people. And this was where the carolling Christmas tradition originated PAGAN!

Statues of the Mother and lover or Mother and son were paraded through the streets not only in Italy but also in Africa, Spain, Portugal, France, Germany and Bulgaria. Thus, the symbolism of the Heavenly Virgin and the infant child paraded on a yearly basis are not of Christian origin. They stem from the Mother-goddess religion, which is very ancient ENTIRELY PAGAN!

Scandinavian countries celebrated Yule honouring Thor – PAGAN!

In Germania (not Germany) they celebrated midwinter night followed by 12 wild nights of eating and drinking. The 12 days of Christmas PAGAN!

The church under Pope Julius I declared that Christ’s birth would be celebrated on December 25 in 350 AD in order to try to hijack the PAGAN festivals but it was largely ignored. Christians did not really celebrate Christmas until 378 but it was then dropped in 381 and not resurrected until 400.

The Christmas tree stems from pagan tradition and ritual surrounding the Winter Solstice, which included the use of holly boughs ivy and other foliage as an adaptation of pagan tree worship. Holly and ivy represented male and female. Mistletoe was considered a sacred plant, and the custom of kissing under the mistletoe began as a fertility ritual - all PAGAN!

Santa Claus came from the Dutch “Sinterklaas” and was a tall figure riding a white horse through the air and usually accompanied by Black Peter, an elf who punished disobedient children. Also the origin of the reindeer, sleigh and the elves ALL PAGAN!

The modern red coated Santa was brought about by coca cola!

AMERICA ACTUALLY BANNED CHRISTMAS several times and is the originator of the expression “Happy Holidays” which came about because of the pagan origins of Christmas to include all religions and traditions!

The Venerable Bede, an early Christian writer pointed out that the Christian church absorbed Pagan practices when it found the population unwilling to give up the festivals. Thus a lot of what Christians now see as Christians practices are in fact pagan!

Christmas is the time of year christians strive to prove just how pagan they have become!

That happened when the Julian calendar was corrected and modified into the Gregorian Calendar. In the Julian calendar, there was a discrepancy, which caused the dates of the solstices to move about.

At the time the Gregorian Calender was calculated, Solstice, was celebrated in the Roman world, on the 25th of December.

The corrections to the calender, shifted the actual date forward to the 21st of December, but the population already celebrated on the 25th, and continued that tradition.

As to summer solstice, We celebrate the day, not the eve.

because during about the 3rd and 4th centuries a.d. the catholic church was not making any headway in converting the pagans to christianity (or their version of it) and so to lure them into the church, they changed the saturnalia holiday which was supposed to be the birth of the sun god into the birthday of the Son of God. it worked well too. they told these pagans they could keep celebrating it the same way they always had and just change the name of the god they were worshipping so they did.

they did the same thing with easter. most christians do not even know that Jesus was not born in december but in the spring, probably may.

because in order to get pagans to convert, Christians stole their holy days and holy places really giving the pagans no where else to go. Im sure some Christians will try and say, "Because thats when Jesus was born." Which is just a rediculous statement because the Bible makes no reference to the date, and historically speaking looking at the events depicted, the weather even, it is widely believed that the actual birth of Jesus is in SEPTEMBER.

They couldn't make the Yule holiday go away. It was powerfully ingrained in European culture, and it just makes sense to have an indoor, social holiday in the middle of winter so that this season is one of joy rather than the depression that the weather itself and lack of sunlight brings, which is probably why nearly every culture has a winter holiday. Since the holiday wouldn't go away they crossed out "Yule" and wrote "Christmas" on Dec 25th on the Calendar.... and next thing you know manger scenes are getting set up on this date... which brings us to where we are today.

Never heard of anyone doing that, but gay people don't express their sexuality in everything they do. They are more than "gay", if that makes sense.

Its a mindset,not an actual theft.We are all free to establish what we believe in.

we like stealing things from pagans 'cos we once were the frickin pagans.

it seems like a lot of christians only do what they're told.

to toy with atheists. not that that is hard or anything....God Bless