Reply #40: sacred Christian holiday? they stole it from the pagans...its called Yule. [View All]

[Lethe]

they stole christmas, just like they stole easter.....directly from the Pagans. The christmas tree comes directly from pagan norse tradition. Ask your christian friend why they celebrate christmas with a tree....they wont know. Ask your christian friend where the easter bunny comes from.....hey guess what...its from the Norse pagans.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yule

When the first missionaries began converting the Germanic peoples to Christianity, they found it easier to simply provide a Christian reinterpretation for popular feasts such as Yule and allow the celebrations themselves to go on largely unchanged, rather than trying to suppress them. The Scandinavian tradition of slaughtering a pig at Christmas (see Christmas ham), and not in the autumn, is probably the most salient evidence for this. The tradition derives from the sacrifice to the god Freyr at the Yule celebrations. Halloween and Easter are theorized to have been likewise assimilated from northern European pagan festivals.