Christmas is originally a pagan holiday.

I saw a post on tik tok this morning on how Christmas is a Christian holiday and those who have beef with Christianity shouldn’t bother to celebrate it.

Ironically a lot of Europeans would have most likely ended up still celebrating some sort of holiday similar to Christmas today even if they never encountered Christianity. Because “Christmas “ is originally rooted in winter pagan traditions/holidays.

Romans were pagans before they transitioned to Christianity.
And in pagan Europe there was all sorts of winter solstice festivals
Like “yule” and “saturnalia”
If you look them up , you’ll immediately notice how they’r very similar to Christmas and predate it.

Christmas might have been a replacement / copy
of “festival Dies Natalis Solis Invicti”
Which was basically a Roman festival on December 25th where Roman’s celebrated the sun ☀god .
This is why even though Jesus was not born on December the 25th, the Romans chose this date so the day they celebrate their new God aligns with their previous Pagan winter solstice festivals and turned a pagan holiday into a Christian one .



Now I do not mean that the Christians who do celebrate Christmas are pagan
Nor am I implying that Christmas doesn’t have a religious significance to Christians
However i believe it’s plagiarism and inaccurate for someone to claim that Christmas is rooted in Christianity and is Christian holiday
When its a literally copy of pagan winter holidays , created by Romans and not even by Jesus or his disciples .


I don’t celebrate Christmas but I know many atheists and agnostics who do and believe me it’s not like you have a less of right to it.


Wish you all happy holidays ~