http://tattlerextra.org/2010/01/the-truth-behind-christmas/ B-CC HS Student Newspaper Fri, 18 May 2012 14:56:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://tattlerextra.org/2010/01/the-truth-behind-christmas/comment-page-1/#comment-362 dimitri halikias Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:56:31 +0000 http://tattlerextra.org/?p=2690#comment-362 You make some very good points, and it is very true that most of our Christmas traditions come from pagan rituals, but that does not mean that when we celebrate Christmas we are "unknowingly practicing the rituals of witches." First of all "paganism" is not a formal religion that worships the devil or denies the existence of god. Paganism is just a term used to refer to many different druidic based animistic religions that populated Europe before the spread of Christianity, it has nothing to do whatsoever with "practicing the rituals of witches." With regards to Santa Clause, you are very correct that the American commercial image of Santa is a product of Coca Cola, but the practice and tradition of a divine power bringing gifts on Christmas has a history reaching back to the earliest Christians, and is not at all pagan. In fact, one of the single most impressive aspects of Christianity is that the Santa tradition is very real and prevalent in almost all sects of Christianity all over the world. You make some very good points, and it is very true that most of our Christmas traditions come from pagan rituals, but that does not mean that when we celebrate Christmas we are “unknowingly practicing the rituals of witches.” First of all “paganism” is not a formal religion that worships the devil or denies the existence of god. Paganism is just a term used to refer to many different druidic based animistic religions that populated Europe before the spread of Christianity, it has nothing to do whatsoever with “practicing the rituals of witches.” With regards to Santa Clause, you are very correct that the American commercial image of Santa is a product of Coca Cola, but the practice and tradition of a divine power bringing gifts on Christmas has a history reaching back to the earliest Christians, and is not at all pagan. In fact, one of the single most impressive aspects of Christianity is that the Santa tradition is very real and prevalent in almost all sects of Christianity all over the world.

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