![]() Yep, that Babylon! If you research long enough, you’ll find that everything dates to Babylon. Nearly 2000 years old and it replaced another ancient festival, Saturnalia, which dates to Babylon. That’s why we cannot claim any of them are less or more pagan than the others.Ĭhristmas like the others is a very ancient festival. I mentioned ancient festivals earlier, well, they all fell on either the Equinox or the Solstices. It’s not surprising then that the early Christians chose this day to honour our Lord and Saviour.Ĭhristmas falls on the Winter Solstice: there’s no disputing that. When Jesus was on earth, He said many wonderful things about children including that their Angels see the face of the Father in Heaven and that Heaven itself belongs to the little children. It was the Sigillaria date that was chosen to commemorate the birth of Jesus the Christ. Unlike Christmas, Saturnalia lasted many days (7 days), and it culminated in Sigillaria which is the children’s Solstice festival. Some experts say 17th to 23rd December, while others say 21st to 25th December. Since the ancients were primarily agrarian, they celebrated the Roman gods of agriculture during the Winter Solstice (Saturnalia) in December.Įxperts differ in respect to the dates for Saturnalia celebrations. It’s true, there was a Pagan Temple, Sol Invictus, built by Emperor Aurelian (AD 270-275) and Saturnalia was part of Sol Invictus worship. As someone who reads a lot of ancient near east literature, I find that most festivals originate from Babylon and are extremely ancient.īut since I am focusing on Christmas in this article, let’s just concentrate on that. Every religious festival has its roots in paganism and that’s the truth. Since then as Christmas nears, certain ones become overally concerned about spiritual welfare and pagan practices. We have Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code to thank for popularising Sol Invictus the Unconquered Sun. It’s time to kick them and Saturnalia to the curb. Whichever the case might be, the Christmas Police are out in force, and they grow stronger every year. Perhaps it’s your family, friends or even your church that is accusing you of celebrating Saturnalia. I hope my research will help people who might be struggling with the same dilemma as I was. It took a couple of years of researching, and now I’m ready to share my thoughts on Christmas. After all, I did not want to do anything that was contrary to my Christian faith. The onus was then on me to investigate those claims, which I did. ![]() I was happily living my Christmas dream when one day I was told that Jesus was not born on the 25th December and that I was celebrating the pagan festival of Saturnalia. ![]()
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