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omega2K4 · 12-13-2004, 12:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Slavakion

Could you elaborate? No, I'm really interested.

I dunno, Christmas really isn't Christmas anymore. I remember when I was like seven years old. I asked my parents how come a few of the Christmas cards we got were all "religious-y" and didn't talk about presents, Santa, or the holidays.
Speaking of Santa, how did he become associated with a religious holiday? Is it because people had started the tradition of gifts on Christmas, and then Santa appeared as a jolly old myth?

I found this on some website via google:

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Should Christians Celebrate Christmas?
The true origins of Christmas

So where did it all begin??

The concept of Christmas originated in ancient Egypt in the days of King Osiris and Queen Isis around about 3000 B.C. - long before the Christian faith was even thought of!!

After the untimely death of King Osiris, his wife, Isis, propogated the demonic doctrine of the survival of Osiris as a spirit. She claimed a full grown evergreen tree sprang overnight from a dead stump, symbolising the new life of the Osiris spirit from his death. On each anniversary of Osiris birth, which was the date we now know as December 25th, Isis would leave gifts around this tree.

Isis became the "Queen of Heaven", and Osiris became the reborn "divine son of heaven". Osiris later became, through the later Phoenicans, Baal the Sun-god. The "mother and child" became chief objects of worship by the Babylonians, from which it spread over the world under various names, such as, Cybel & Deoius in Asia, Fortuna & Jupiter in pagan Rome.

Then during the fourth and fifth century, the Romans under the new popular "Christianity" popularised the "mother and child" concept especially around Christmas time - from which we have many of the Christmas carols such as "Silent Night Holy Night" with it's familiar "mother and child" theme.