Why is Christmas pagan and what is an alternative tradition to Christmas one can do instead? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others ...

When you gather around the Christmas tree or stuff goodies into a stocking, you're taking part in traditions that stretch back thousands of years — long before Christianity entered the mix. Pagan, or ...

Some say Christmas originated with paganism and claim it is a “pagan holiday.” I’d like to see if those who make these claims are consistent with such rational. To those who assume that celebrating ...

I recently read an article in which a Christian critic of Christmas quipped that Christmas is no more than “paganism wrapped with a Christian bow.” The case is made that the celebration of Christmas ...

NOW that Christmas has just passed, we can now look deeper into the historical roots of and practices performed during the holiday. Celebrated by billions of people globally, Christmas is widely seen ...

For millennia, every December 25, Christians have celebrated the feast of the birth of Jesus Christ. As the Catechism says (525-526): Jesus was born in a humble stable, into a poor family. Simple ...

“Christmas is a pagan holiday,” several of our most trusted preachers insisted when I was a boy. To flesh out sermons that damned Christmas trees and Santa Claus and holy days, they ransacked the ...

Christmas is the most celebrated of Christian holidays, commemorating what the faithful believe was the miraculous birth of Jesus Christ, the son of God. But many of the season's most enduring symbols ...

The manufactured furor over Melania Trump's White House Christmas decorations shows how willing we are to believe fake news. And the president makes us this way. Yesterday, Melania Trump’s impassioned ...