"nakas" <daniel_pineo@attbi.com> wrote in message
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> "Reese" <xyz34@plutolink.com> wrote in message
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> > On Sun, 15 Dec 2002 01:59:03 GMT, "F.H." <disconnectu@earthlink.net>
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> > >Will you be exchanging gifts at Christmas?
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> > Was this question ever answered?
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> Considering Christmas is a pagan holiday, why not?
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I would like clarify this for anybody out there that maybe doesn't know this
yet. Christmas is actually nothing more than the celebration of the winter
solstice, a pagan holiday which was celebrated for thousands of years before
christ. The earth precesses, like a spinning top, every 24 thousand years
or so. About 1,500 years ago, the winter solstice fell on December 25th.
Due to the precession of the earth, the solstice has slowly moved over time
to where it is today: December 21st. Bacically, the Christians just
hijacked this widly celebrated pagan holiday a few thousand years ago and
claimed it as their own.

Also notice the similarity here:
1 ) Pagan cultures revered the sun for it's ability to bring light, and thus
life, to the their crops. They celibrated the sun's re-birth on the winter
solstice.
2) Christians revere the "Son" for his ability to bring "light" and "life".
They celebrate his birth on December 25th, at that time the day of the
winter solstice.


Here's a good link for more detailed information:
http://www.candlegrove.com/solstice.html