christmas is a christian celebration, not pagan.  our beloved christmas traditions, stemming from white christian europe, are all based in christianity and christian traditions, yet every year christians have to endure masses of hysterical, raging jews, freemasons, atheists, pagans, mohammedan immigrants, mentally ill sexual perverts, hindus, satanists et al., who either do not know what they are talking about, or are pathologically lying and just repeating ad nauseam that christmas is totally pagan. nothing could be further from the truth.  when you have an agrarian society, you will always have an event or celebration marking the changing days or seasons. people will be celebrating when the days get longer or shorter as a milestone, and that is irrespective of paganism, the celebration our ancestors had were geared by the annual changes seen in nature. this is normal and is not "because" of paganism, there is nothing in paganism making it special, or anything close to what we developed in christendom, for what we now take for granted as christmas time, in paganism it is all about nature and essentially changing weather. paganism just parasitically latched on to that, and the pagan societies would just slap pagan themes on top, paganism isn't the core and never was.  christianity gave purpose and meaning to this time on a much deeper level, it changed everything in europe for our ancestors, in christendom we developed beautiful, rich and theologically based traditions for the entire time, we call it christmas time, the time when the light has come into the world, for peace and goodwill towards men, this brought the warm traditions and atmosphere that we love and now take for granted (and miss as the christian influence that made christmas what it is has been attacked and eroded).
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