[Carry_Okie]

I don't dispute the national day of prayer. I do question setting the date on a major pagan holiday that has existed for since the Middle Ages.

[anniegetyourgun]

FYI, the National Day of Prayer is held the first Thursday in May every year.

[webber]

Christmas was celebrated on a pagan holiday to counter that holiday with a Christian Holiday. Easter is actually a celebration of the goddess Astarte of Babylonian times. That's why many Christians don't use the term Easter anymore but "Happy Resurrection Day" to celebrate the Resurrection of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus The Messiah, God's Sacirificial Pesach Lamb for the sin of mankind. So celebrating Christian events on pagan holidays started long, long time ago.
By the way, many Christian scholars believe that Dec 25th was not the day Jesus was born, but rather conceived, and He was born on the Jewish Holiday of Succoth, known in English as "The Feast Of Tabernacles".