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 Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 7:48 am
christmas is acutaly about god or something like that. dont know why all this santa stuff started
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Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 2:28 pm
ya but santas cool XD and hi
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Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 9:24 pm
omg really?!?! another one!?!? DID ANYWHERE IN THE BIBLE GOD SAY/WRITE AND JESUS WAS BORN ON CHRISTMAS!?!?!??!?!? nope -.- and santa got started because some monk was saint. something and he did joy and died on x-mas :3 ISNT FUN TO NO STUFF!?!?!
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Hug-An-Emo-On-A-Rainbow rolled 8 8-sided dice:
5, 3, 2, 6, 2, 2, 5, 3
Total: 28 (8-64)
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Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 5:34 am
Yes, actually Christmas is the day Jesus was born on, there for the term Christmas
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Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 11:05 am
The word Christmas comes from the old English "Cristes maesse" meaning Christ's Mass. The Holiday celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ. The actual birthday of Jesus is not known; therefore, the early Church Fathers in the 4th century fixed the day around the old Roman Saturnalia festival (17 - 21 December), a traditional pagan festivity. The first mention of the birthday of Jesus is from the year 354 AD. Gradually all Christian churches, except Armenians who celebrate Christmas on January 6 (the date of the baptism of Jesus as well as the day of the three Magi), accepted the date of December 25th.
In American/English tradition, Christmas Day itself is the day for opening gifts brought by jolly old St. Nick. Many of our current American ideals about the way Christmas ought to be, derive from the English Victorian Christmas, such as that described in Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol."
The caroling, the gifts, the feast, and the wishing of good cheer to all - these ingredients came together to create that special Christmas atmosphere.
The custom of gift-giving on Christmas goes back to Roman festivals of Saturnalia and Kalends. The very first gifts were simple items such as twigs from a sacred grove as good luck emblems. Soon that escalated to food, small items of jewelry, candles, and statues of gods. To the early Church, gift-giving at this time was a pagan holdover and therefore severely frowned upon. However, people would not part with it, and some justification was found in the original gift giving of the Magi, and from figures such as St. Nicholas. By the middle ages gift giving was accepted. Before then it was more common to exchange gifts on New Year's Day or Twelfth Night.
Santa Klaus Santa Claus is known by British children as Father Christmas. Father Christmas, these days, is quite similar to the American Santa, but his direct ancestor is a certain pagan spirit who regularly appeared in medieval mummer's plays. The old-fashioned Father Christmas was depicted wearing long robes with sprigs of holly in his long white hair. Children write letters to Father Christmas detailing their requests, but instead of dropping them in the mailbox, the letters are tossed into the fireplace. The draft carries the letters up the chimney, and theoretically, Father Christmas reads the smoke. Gifts are opened Christmas afternoon.
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Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 3:58 am
Pre-modern representations of the gift-giver from church history and folklore, notably St Nicholas and Sinterklaas, merged with the British character Father Christmas to create the character known to Britons and Americans as Santa Claus. Father Christmas dates back at least as far as the 17th century in Britain, and pictures of him survive from that era, portraying him as a jolly well-nourished bearded man dressed in a long, green, fur-lined robe. He typified the spirit of good cheer at Christmas, and was reflected as the "Ghost of Christmas Present", in Charles Dickens Festive classic A Christmas Carol, a great genial man in a green coat lined with fur who takes Scrooge through the bustling streets of London on the current Christmas morning, sprinkling the essence of Christmas onto the happy populace.
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Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2009 5:53 pm
Psychopompic Rabbits The word Christmas comes from the old English "Cristes maesse" meaning Christ's Mass. The Holiday celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ. The actual birthday of Jesus is not known; therefore, the early Church Fathers in the 4th century fixed the day around the old Roman Saturnalia festival (17 - 21 December), a traditional pagan festivity. The first mention of the birthday of Jesus is from the year 354 AD. Gradually all Christian churches, except Armenians who celebrate Christmas on January 6 (the date of the baptism of Jesus as well as the day of the three Magi), accepted the date of December 25th. In American/English tradition, Christmas Day itself is the day for opening gifts brought by jolly old St. Nick. Many of our current American ideals about the way Christmas ought to be, derive from the English Victorian Christmas, such as that described in Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." The caroling, the gifts, the feast, and the wishing of good cheer to all - these ingredients came together to create that special Christmas atmosphere. The custom of gift-giving on Christmas goes back to Roman festivals of Saturnalia and Kalends. The very first gifts were simple items such as twigs from a sacred grove as good luck emblems. Soon that escalated to food, small items of jewelry, candles, and statues of gods. To the early Church, gift-giving at this time was a pagan holdover and therefore severely frowned upon. However, people would not part with it, and some justification was found in the original gift giving of the Magi, and from figures such as St. Nicholas. By the middle ages gift giving was accepted. Before then it was more common to exchange gifts on New Year's Day or Twelfth Night. Santa Klaus Santa Claus is known by British children as Father Christmas. Father Christmas, these days, is quite similar to the American Santa, but his direct ancestor is a certain pagan spirit who regularly appeared in medieval mummer's plays. The old-fashioned Father Christmas was depicted wearing long robes with sprigs of holly in his long white hair. Children write letters to Father Christmas detailing their requests, but instead of dropping them in the mailbox, the letters are tossed into the fireplace. The draft carries the letters up the chimney, and theoretically, Father Christmas reads the smoke. Gifts are opened Christmas afternoon. I love you! You are so right! All of that is compleatly true! Pagan's made up there own things therefore, going against the bible. Also, Easter, Valentine's Day and many other holidays are made up by them. We should not be celebrating them.
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Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2009 5:57 pm
thequietgirlnextdoor omg really?!?! another one!?!? DID ANYWHERE IN THE BIBLE GOD SAY/WRITE AND JESUS WAS BORN ON CHRISTMAS!?!?!??!?!? nope -.- and santa got started because some monk was saint. something and he did joy and died on x-mas :3 ISNT FUN TO NO STUFF!?!?! I agree with you on everything but one thing. God didn't make the Bible. The 12 Deciples wrote it. It was like there journal of everything that was going on.
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Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2009 5:58 pm
missymerox Yes, actually Christmas is the day Jesus was born on, there for the term Christmas Like the other girl said, It means Christ's mass. Look it up.
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Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2009 9:26 pm
yeah christmas is defintly about jesus but alot of people seem to forget that even me sometimes and i hate myself for that because if it wasnt for jesus we wouldnt be here today
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