If the basis of Christianity is Christs redemptive sacrifice,why is Xmas given more prominence than Easter?

Christmas nor Easter has anything to do with Christ Redemptive Power and Sacrifice. These are Pagan holidays{Written way before us and now have become traditions}}...not Gods Holidays, nor Sacred and are written by Man.

Inherent on your question is denial of it being real. you're additionally forgeting the Christians made it tougher to proceed to be a Jew e.g. expulsion, pogroms, Crusades, etc. they did no longer supply them an basic time for the final 2000 years. Christianity's varification of Judaism per danger is an endorcement, which maintains to be hidden from the minds of many followers, yet isn't powerful in any respect to its survival. no person grew to grow to be Jewish or remained Jewish on the muse that Christians say that it was the real undertaking. If something the incontrovertible fact that Christians say there's a sparkling way in the international could be hurting Judaism. It definately did no longer supply it prominince, see above. the only way Christianity has helped is to unfold monotheism in the international. no person has suffered extra promptly per their ideals, extra advantageous than the Jews, and that they nevertheless carry to their faith. because of the fact of this it remains around! They carry rapid to their faith because of the fact they inherently have faith it quite is real. it quite is their existence, no longer an exterior prepare.

Christmas is controlled commercially.....A lot of money is made from it. Same with Easter but not as much as Christmas.....We Christians ignorantling fell in line with it all. We need to pull things back to normal and that will involve some pain.......The children should be given gifts in the summer time after school is out as a reward for their hard work ....not at Christmas time....But is we started doing that the commercial field would jump on it and it would turn out like Christmas.....they would think up all kinds of things to get money from us and since that would become the norm...everyone would yield to whatever ideas they came up with.

I don't think one is more than the other at all. Christmas is celebrated as Christ Birth, Easter celebrates Christ return from his Crucifixion. Easter has Easter Break with the Schools, Christmas has Christmas Break. Parents buy gifts for children for Christmas, Parents buy Easter Baskets and eggs for the hunt. Both are very important Religious Days in the Churches and are celebrated as such. I don't see a difference at all. Just different ways of celebrating each of Jesus important days that we honor him

Because it's a pagan holiday. It was a bigger pagan holiday.

Xmas is an old pagan holiday celebrating the days getting longer. The christians stole it from the pagans in the Dark Ages. The christians forced everyone to celebrate their holidays or they would burn them to death at the stake or torture them to death. After the christians tortured people to death they stole all their money, property and possessions. That's how the christian church got so rich.

Go take a look at all that stolen stuff in the Vatican some day.

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Because it's easier to accept a baby in a manger than a Savior dying on a cross.

Beats me, Easter (Ishtar) is at least as pagan and in my opinion, worse (Ishtar Bunnies?)

It's at least as bad as Christians celebrating a Santa whom all (over the age of 18) admit is a false god.

6 The roots of Christmas are found, not in Scripture, but in ancient pagan festivals, such as the Roman Saturnalia, a celebration dedicated to Saturn, the god of agriculture. Likewise, according to their reckoning, devotees of the god Mithra celebrated December 25 as the “birthday of the invincible sun,” says the New Catholic Encyclopedia. “Christmas originated at a time when the cult of the sun was particularly strong at Rome,” about three centuries after the death of Christ.

7 During their celebrations, pagans exchanged gifts and feasted—practices that Christmas preserved. As is also true today, however, much Christmas giving was not in the spirit of 2 Corinthians 9:7, which reads: “Let each one do just as he has resolved in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.” True Christians give out of love, their giving is not tied to a date, and they expect no gifts in return. (Luke 14:12-14; Acts 20:35) Moreover, they deeply appreciate being set free from the Christmas frenzy and relieved of the heavy yoke of financial debt that many incur at that time of year.—Matthew 11:28-30; John 8:32..

13Promoted as a celebration of Christ’s resurrection, Easter is actually rooted in false religion. The name Easter itself has been linked to Eostre, or Ostara, the Anglo-Saxon goddess of the dawn and of spring. And how did eggs and rabbits come to be associated with Easter? Eggs “have been prominent as symbols of new life and resurrection,” says the Encyclopædia Britannica, while the hare and the rabbit have long served as symbols of fertility. Easter, therefore, is really a fertility rite thinly disguised as a celebration of Christ’s resurrection.

14 Would Jehovah condone the use of a filthy fertility rite to commemorate his Son’s resurrection? Never! (2 Corinthians 6:17, 18) In fact, the Scriptures neither command nor authorize the commemorating of Jesus’ resurrection in the first place. To do so in the name of Easter, therefore, is to be doubly disloyal.

3 ...... Said Paul: “I received from the Lord that which I also handed on to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which he was going to be handed over took a loaf and, after giving thanks, he broke it and said: ‘This means my body which is in your behalf. Keep doing this in remembrance of me.’ He did likewise respecting the cup also, after he had the evening meal, saying: ‘This cup means the new covenant by virtue of my blood. Keep doing this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.’”—1 Corinthians 11:23-25.

4 The Gospel writer Luke confirms that Jesus commanded: “Keep doing this in remembrance of me.” (Luke 22:19) These words have also been rendered: “Do this in memory of me” (Today’s English Version) and “Do this as a memorial of me.” (The Jerusalem Bible) In fact, this observance is often referred to as the Memorial of Christ’s death. Paul also calls it the Lord’s Evening Meal—an appropriate designation, since this was instituted at night. (1 Corinthians 11:20) Christians are commanded to observe the Lord’s Evening Meal. But why was this observance instituted?

10 Should Jesus’ death be commemorated monthly, weekly, or even daily? No. Jesus instituted the Lord’s Evening Meal and was killed on the day of Passover, which was observed “as a memorial” of Israel’s deliverance from Egyptian bondage in 1513 B.C.E. (Exodus 12:14) The Passover was held only once a year, on the 14th day of the Jewish month Nisan. (Exodus 12:1-6; Leviticus 23:5) This indicates that Jesus’ death should be commemorated only as often as the Passover—annually—not monthly, weekly, or daily.

The Celebration most important and most overlooked is the Lord's evening meal, since we gain salvation not through Jesus' birth or Resurrection, but his death.

You can't have Easter without Christmas. In other words, you can't have resurrection without birth.

If Jesus had not been born, there would be no resurrection, therefore there would be no Easter.