“[Christmas Day] was the old pagan holiday celebrating the winter solstice and the birth of the sun god and celebrated when the days began to get longer.”
Modern scholarship has debunked that. Christians, rightly or wrongly as far as the day, were celebrating December 25 before the Romans used the day to celebrate their paganism.
Ya, I’m tired of the same ol’ every Christian important date was created to mask over some pagan data, you know, that ol’ chestnut ...
Could you site the scholarship sources you reference? Thank you.
Various other non-Roman and non-Christian regions already had the winter solstice in effect. You can even cite the Incas for notice of the effect of the day.