Posted on 12/25/2025 5:12:23 AM PST by Tom Tetroxide
Our mythical figure of Father Christmas is really no more than a modern incarnation of Odin, the chief god of the Nordic peoples. The earliest evidence for this was found in the London district of Dagenham.
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Nevertheless, Merry Christmas to all on the celebration of God’s Son and our Savior Jesus.
Replacing one form of paganism with another!
Hosea 11:9
I will not execute the kindling of My anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim, for I am God and not a man. In your midst is the Holy One, and I will not enter a city.
Numbers 23:19
God is not a man that He should lie, nor is He a mortal that He should relent. Would He say and not do, speak and not fulfill?
1st Samuel 15:29
And also, the Strength of Israel will neither lie nor repent, for He is not a man to repent.
Job 9:32
For He is not man like me, that I should answer Him, ‘Let us come together in debate.’
Inventor of the Naughty List.
Whatev .... Merry Christmas!!!
I don’t celebrate Christmas at all, at least personally, I do go to church though and they celebrate it through a lot. I even take part in the celebration and then I’m a bass player and I play in the praise band.
I believe the most likely date of Christ’s birth is, oddly enough, September 11th.
Viking influence in England ended before 1000. Father Christmas showed up in the 17th century. There’s no connection between the two.
This sounds like some AI fabricated nonsense
“Our mythical figure of Father Christmas is really no more than a modern incarnation of Odin...”
That theory has been debunked.
Debunked.
This nonsense is the fevered dream of atheists, Satanists and churches founded by conspiratorial con artists. Santa is dressed in the clothes of 3rd-century Greek bishops.
No, this article is a diabolic lie from the very heart of Satan. All Christians of good will should denounce such demonic nonsense. Every Christmas, we get subjected to the hate-filled rants of so-called Christians who hate everything about Christ, feeding us nonsense invented by the followers of Anton LeVay, and promoted endlessly by communist and other Gad-hating atheists, aided by the absolute, jaw-dropping ignorance of Christians still waiting for another Great Disappointment.
Atheists, Communists and Seventh-Day Adventists all have the same hatred in their heart for Christ’s church so they all spew the same lies.
The posters homepage reads like satan quoting the scriptures to Jesus on the mountain top. It’s what atheists do for kicks.
Merry Christsmas, you Heathen.
Thank you for your lies and hate filled rant.
and further, the celebration on December 25 incorporates the celebration of the winter solstice as well as the birth day of the Christ Child
It sounds like you have a good church. The birth of Christ is extrapolated from the timeline when Mary visited Elizabeth who was 6 months pregnant with John the Baptist after Mary was visited by Gabriel. I'm sure God will forgive us if we do have the wrong day in September though, as there are many theories about that. I have chosen September 29th.
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