ajh-valmer composed on 2024-12-26 12:35 (UTC+0100):
William Morder wrote:
I am not a Christmassy kind of person. I don't like how it has been ruined through commercialization. The advertisements start earlier and earlier every year. The worst part is the music, almost all of which is insufferably bland.
[...] Confusion : Christmas with Jesus and Santa Claus business-commercial operation.
Check out "Season of birth" and "Islamic view" on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_of_the_birth_of_Jesus
I'm a firm believer His birth was not in December as much by how the tradition of celebration on 25 December came about:
"Jesus was most likely not born the 25th of December. He was probably born in the fall. That was a date that was adopted by the church because it was the winter solstice and it was already a popular holiday in the Roman Empire. So the date for the 25th of December was really adopted from the pagans." https://www.amazingfacts.org/media-library/media/e/1245/f/6/t/are-christian-...