Updated Dec. 26th, 2014
OK, I have been doing homework to confirm or deny my understanding on Christmas. Christmas is one of the things that has been waking me up over the years about many thing; September 11th was another wake up call for me, along with the truth about the Civil War and many other lies we were taught in school and even church… I am not perfect, nor do I expect you to be either. However; I am a truth seeker, so here are my finding on said research for Christ-Mass.
I knew and understood that Christmas was originally a Pagan holiday for the gods; actually the SUN GOD, not the Son of God. Over the course of fall and winter there were many festivals for the GODS all together including but not limited to Halloween. Later, approximately 300ish AD; Jesus aka Christ got added in the mix and thus the word “Christmas” came into existence. Before, the many festivals had many other names; Christmas is just another one now. No one knows the exact time when Jesus was really born; but many believe and the evidence points to it NOT being in December. I was raised with some of this truth and I have been learning the rest on my own.
XMas is NOT Xing Christ out of Christmas, yet it is an abbreviation of the Greek word XPLOTOC meaning “Christ” and in a since it is Xing out Christ but not out of Christmas.
I do not necessarily calibrate Christmas; but when I do, I do it with Dos Equis 🙂
Seriously; I have hardly celebrated Christmas since before the Millennium. When I did, I did it with understand and not ignorance. Which is said to be even worse. I have known most the truths about Christmas for many years; but went along to get along with others, just to be festive and friendly. I didn’t typically do gifts, but I do enjoy the company of friends and family on most any occasion; Christmas or otherwise.
My Ex2012 use to ridicule and pock fun at me for being a Bah Humbug and calling me Scrooge McDuck when she knew I didn’t celebrate this holiday. I knew her when she was with her Ex Husband, before she was with the Pagan guy, before she was with me and I didn’t celebrate it then either; so she knew this long before she got with me. Now for her sake, I did go along to get along and sacrificed some of my beliefs for her because she loved the Pagan holiday traditions. I hardly participated in the exchanging of gifts and maybe a few other things. But I like others; enjoy the light, the food, the carols, the greetings and the gatherings. So I did these things for her, even though she mocked me and my beliefs. As I learn more about the lies attached to this holiday, I want less and less to do with it. It never was our holiday to begin with, and people go around trying to put “Christ in Christmas” like it was taken out or something; I say we should remove Christ from Christmas whether the “Mass of Christ” is as believed or not.
Again; I pretty much knew about all the other stuff, I just now learned about the “Mass of Christ” part in 2014/2015 Cusp. Over the years I have been learning the truths about how this confusion began with mixing of Christian and Pagan holidays, rituals and traditions. Originally it was a pagan holiday, since before Jesus was born from what I understand. I also knew that the Roman Catholic Church was the ones who changed the holidays, mixing the Pagan Festivus with Christianity thus making Christmas. The scary part and the part that I am still researching; is that “Christmas” translates into “Christ Mass” or “Mass of Christ”. That doesn’t sound so bad right? Well, supposedly that translates into “Death of Christ” or “Sacrifice of Christ” not “Birth of Christ”. So when we make celebrations and say things like “HOHOHO MERRY CHRISTMAS”, what does that sound like to you now? Now that you know it means or may mean other then what you were raised to believe? Yeah, it made me sick too; still does actually.
I use to not to make a too big of a deal about it before I knew this, even parts of my own family still choose to stay brainwashed and choose to ridicule me for seeking the truth; as you may choose to do also. “It is a holiday of celebration either way you choose to celebrate it, the Pagans have their thing and we Christians have ours”, they say… I understand that here in the United Soviet States of America, this country was founded on freedom of religion; though those freedoms don’t seem to be so stable or real at the moment. And that we may also be celebrating a “New Independence Day” which may be long needed and deserved.
I say, let the Pagans have their holiday back and let’s quit trying to make it our own when it clearly is not and never was. Christ was born in September, not that Jesus wanted us to celebrate his birth; he never said to do so or not to do so. Then again, there are hundreds of books that were taken out of the bible; so how do we know? That is another story for another day; and yes, I have done my homework on that too. I started that quest around 1993.
So if you want to honor his birth, you should do so in September; do it when he was really born. If you insist on keeping this Christmas, do it for the right reasons. If Christmas truly means “Mass of Christ” or “Death of Christ” – Then honor it as he would want you to do; we should be paying our respects properly and not as it is now, NOT the ways it is currently celebrated and not for the wrong reasons.
Thank you so much, my name is CainO’ & I APPROVE THIS MESSAGE.
Here are links for you to start on your quest:
Do your own homework!
http://www.lasttrumpetministries.org/tracts/
https://www.google.com/search?q=Kwanzaa,+Hanukkah&spell=1&sa=X&ei=RwyVVIPVFOu1sASpoYD4Aw&ved=0CBwQvwUoAA&biw=1600&bih=769
https://www.google.com/search?q=Pagan+gods&oq=Pagan+gods&gs_l=serp.3..0i67l9j0.11952.15970.0.17595.4.4.0.0.0.0.1069.2032.2-1j2j7-1.4.0.msedr…0…1c.1.60.serp..1.3.1732._ArjhUuxyBM
http://biblelight.net/sukkoth.htm
http://www.askelm.com/star/star006.htm
http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-topics/new-testament/how-december-25-became-christmas/
http://www.crosswalk.com/special-coverage/christmas-and-advent/was-jesus-really-born-on-dec-25.html
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/holidays/2012/12/why_is_christmas_in_december.html
http://www.christiananswers.net/christmas/mythsaboutchristmas.html
http://blog.dictionary.com/xmas-christogram/
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/12/the-x-in-xmas-doesnt-take-the-christ-out-of-christmas/
http://www.cgg.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Library.sr/CT/ARTB/k/568/When-Was-Jesus-Born.htm
http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Articles/Christmas/christmas.html
http://www.whychristmas.com/customs/25th.shtml
http://www.orlutheran.com/html/chrmas_pagan4.html
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/False%20Religions/Other%20Pagan%20Mumbo-Jumbo/christmas.htm
http://www.lasttrumpetministries.org/tracts/tract3.html
http://www.hope-of-israel.org/cmas1.htm
http://biblelight.net/xmas.htm
http://mystery-babylon.org/christmas.html