Why is Christmas on December 25th?

It's because that's the day that the Sun is "born."

(Then daylight begins to increase again.)

And it became:

Sun = Son

B/c of the many Winter Solstice celebrations that occurred. The catholic church at the time decided it would be easier to take all the celebrating and say it was b/c of their religion (eye roll)

That is why evergreen trees are decorated and mistletoe and holly are used as decorations, despite having NO connection to a baby Jew being born in a desert.

I'm not sure if the lights are just b/c or if it specifically has to do with the fact that the W.S. marks the shortest day of the year...the next being the first day the sun is in the sky a little longer.

The nativity set didn't appear until around 1500, 1600.

Believe this or not but it's true. The church decided when Christmas would be celebrated and when easter would be. Jesus if he existed was born in spring or summer

They chose december because there is/was a pagan winter festival on the 21/22 of december and there was a roman festival around that time to

So it would be easier to convert all the poor pagans to christianity

so when people say you cant celebrate christmas if your not a christian tell them the pagans celbrated it first but for a differnt reason

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Not all of Origen's contemporaries agreed that Christ's birthday shouldn't be celebrated, and some began to speculate on the date (actual records were apparently long lost). Clement of Alexandria (c.150-c.215) favored May 20 but noted that others had argued for April 18, April 19, and May 28. Hippolytus (c.170-c.236) championed January 2. November 17, November 20, and March 25 all had backers as well. A Latin treatise written around 243 pegged March 21, because that was believed to be the date on which God created the sun. Polycarp (c.69-c.155) had followed the same line of reasoning to conclude that Christ's birth and baptism most likely occurred on Wednesday, because the sun was created on the fourth day.

The eventual choice of December 25, made perhaps as early as 273, reflects a convergence of Origen's concern about pagan gods and the church's identification of God's son with the celestial sun. December 25 already hosted two other related festivals: natalis solis invicti (the Roman "birth of the unconquered sun"), and the birthday of Mithras, the Iranian "Sun of Righteousness" whose worship was popular with Roman soldiers. The winter solstice, another celebration of the sun, fell just a few days earlier. Seeing that pagans were already exalting deities with some parallels to the true deity, church leaders decided to commandeer the date and introduce a new festival.

Western Christians first celebrated Christmas on December 25 in 336, after Emperor Constantine had declared Christianity the empire's favored religion. Eastern churches, however, held on to January 6 as the date for Christ's birth and his baptism. Most easterners eventually adopted December 25, celebrating Christ's birth on the earlier date and his baptism on the latter, but the Armenian church celebrates his birth on January 6. Incidentally, the Western church does celebrate Epiphany on January 6, but as the arrival date of the Magi rather than as the date of Christ's baptism.

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Google the Roman god Mithra. This god was born on the 25th Dec. Wikipedia has some useful info

It's mainly because Christianity co-opted the older pagan festivals.

Christmas has its origins in the Solstice celebrations of pagans, and the Roman festival of Saturnalia.

It's astrology, people across europe used to worship the winter solstice:

the birth of the sun.

It wasn't hard for the conquering romans to change/adopt that into their version;

the birth of the son.

Because of Hanukkah.

Hanukkah begins on the 25th day of the 12th month on the Jewish calendar.

Jesus was more likely born late in February. That's the only time of year where all the details of his birth fall into place.

It has a one out of 365 shot at being accurate. That's better odds than Lotto.

Blue dream has it. Its the day of the sun. It was a pagan feast day that the Roman Catholic Church took over so they would convert to the Catholic faith.

No, it isn't Christ's birthday. A pagan day of festivities was appropriated for the occasion.

Thanks for asking, neighbor.