Its history of Christmas is pure Wiccan/atheist horse hockey.
The pagan holiday of In Sol Invictus was instituted AFTER Christmas became a popular holiday, to compete with Christmas as a pagan holiday. That’s the Roman holiday that’s on Dec. 25th.
The pagan holiday Saturnalia has nothing to do with the rebirth of the sun, and was celebrated on Dec. 17th.
The date of Christmas is the product of two different attempts to guess at the date, which are independent of each other, but which agree.
Good Friday was calculated to have occurred on March 25. There was a belief that great prophets were killed on the day they were conceived. If so, Jesus’ conception into Heaven would be on the day he was conceived into the worldly realm: March 25. If conceived on March 25, it was reasoned, he would be born on December 25.
December was the date most closely approximating the Jewish feast of the Dedication of the Temple. This feast fell on the 25th, so Christmas was placed on the 25th. Why would Jesus be born on the Feast of the Dedication of the Temple? Because on that day, the Spirit of the Living God was revealed within the Temple.
The origin of the Feast of the Dedication of the Temple, and its date, are not in the Protestant bible. But we know Jesus observed it (”Jesus was in Jerusalem as it was the Feast of the Dedication”); And it was on this day that he self-identified with the eternal Temple. (”Destroy this temple, and I will raise it up in three days.”)
If Jesus were conceived, rather than born, on the Feast of the Dedication, the symbolism of that date would still be fulfilled. And that could result in his birthday being close to September 11. On the other hand, if he were conceived on the fourteenth day of the Hebrew year, Passover, that would mean that God began the process of the birth of Jesus on the day he began the creation of the world. Could it be mere coincidence that the festival of the first fruits is fourteen days after the creation of the world, and conception takes place on the fourteenth day of a fertility cycle.
Interesting, thank you for posting.