The First Christmas
Posted: Monday, December 12, 2011
by Paul Schroeder
alien / demonic attachment
Many Christians who celebrate the holiday (originally, 'holy day') of Christmas, probably don't know that many of their traditional festive customs originated elsewhere in pagan tradition and have little or nothing to do with Christmas ('Christ's Mass') or the Christian religion .
In the year 300 A.D. when the Church, per se, entered England, a pagan group called the Druids (who built Stonehenge) sacrificed human infants in a barbaric blood ritual practiced in a pagan religious event on December 25th .
("Sun worship is fairly simple. There's no mystery, no miracles, no pageantry, no one asks for money, there are no songs to learn, and we don't have a special building where we all gather once a week to compare clothing.
And the best thing about the sun, it never tells me I'm unworthy. Doesn't tell me I'm a bad person who needs to be saved. Hasn't said an unkind word. Treats me fine. So, I worship the sun. But, I don't pray to the sun. Know why? I wouldn't presume on our friendship.
““ "The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin." Jay Leno. ””
George Carlin)
But although the church did away with blood sacrifices, they could not erase the other rituals associated with this Druid culture.
Druids believed that good spirits dwelled in Pine trees and that when one knocked on such a tree (knock on wood), after that tree was brought into the home, that the good spirits within would be released into the home bringing good luck.
Christians who decorate pine trees and bring them into their homes to celebrate Christmas are really indeed still following this ancient Druid custom which the church tried to but could not erase.
These ancient Druids exchanged gifts with each other in their pagan celebration of that Roman agricultural holiday and Christians today who exchange gifts are still following that pagan ritual, which had and has nothing to do with what the church imposed as Christianity.
The church was totally unable to erase that element of pagan celebration despite their prodigious efforts to punish those who still did.
Mistletoe was so revered by these ancient Druids that it was never allowed to touch the floor; it had to be hung from eves and from ceilings.
In their pagan rites, revered most valued mistletoe was used as an aphrodisiac, a sexual stimulant, and under its horny influence hundreds of young Druid women and young Druid men would go into the fields ('children of the corn') to lasciviously and licentiously copulate in public in great numbers, to excite and thus encourage the 'Gods' to do likewise, a type of Godly pornography.
These Druids believed that the rains which enriched the fields at this holiday time, which fell from the sky, were the 'seeds of the Gods', or God's sperm, which fell down to earth from Godly sexual unions and were essential in order to stimulate agricultural growth.
Today, Christians who still hang mistletoe are displaying the vestigial remnants of this shameless sexual rite of the Druids, as on Christmas, one can kiss anyone who stands under this herb, without owning guilt or shame.
Christians who decorate pine trees, hang mistletoe and exchange gifts are NOT celebrating Christmas as church fathers intended but are celebrating and exhibiting remnants of the pagan Druid ritual celebration (and on the same date, December 25th), all rites that the Church labored hard to extinguish and failed to do so as Christians today continue these practices unknowingly.
Early Christians, most interestingly, were called 'atheists', because it appeared that they worshipped a man, and not at all God.
Christ pointed to God, but his followers merely stared at his finger.
To Jews, persecuted for killing a Christian God, the pagan rites of Christians were the LEAST of the problem; to see a man hung on a cross, suffering in agony, writhing like an insect pinned to a mounting board, was a bizarre and demented centerpiece, for any religion!
Jews tried, to no avail, to remind unthinking Christians that Judaism was the original tree of faith and that Christianity, was merely an offshoot branch of that tree.
But, Merry Christmas!!
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Top-level comments on this article: (7 total)Hey, thought this was about YOUR first Christmas or the first one you could ren=member - don't think you are this old!Please log in to respond to this comment.I would run downstairs, aglow, excited to open my presents, as a child, on Christmas morning, only to stop cold, on the stairs, and remember that I was Jewish......Please log in to respond to this comment.Oops!Please log in to respond to this comment.You ASKED for it!Please log in to respond to this comment.YOU are SO right! Grin. You'd love our new edition (addition) Vet says she is a Ragdoll - yahoo! I will vote for that - she is a love whatever she is.Please log in to respond to this comment.Your cats are precious!Please log in to respond to this comment.We are totally enjoying them (no TV so have time to play with kitties!)Please log in to respond to this comment.I put on animal planet on cable for my Nudnick and he sits and watches T.V.!!Please log in to respond to this comment.
The decision of the church to celebrate Christmas was made in the Mediterranian area. The festivals held at that time of year were held in many non-druid countries. What you say is true, about the druids and the trees, etc. The origin of the winter festival is older and from a different part of the world, I believe.
Thanks for the history and a glympse of your beliefs, Paul. And thanks for contributing to our Story Teller Group.Please log in to respond to this comment.You're most welcome; I AM a storyteller, at heart......Please log in to respond to this comment.
Brilliant article ..very enlightening!!Please log in to respond to this comment.Wonderful to hear from you, again; I am trying hard to start thinking about you, and a series of Grimms' updated, upgraded modern, true, horror stories for youngsters, but am surely 'blocked'....
("Thrice upon a time........".)
Much affection,
Paul
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Hi Paul.
I was wondering what you were really writing about when I read the title. Very interesting and educational. :) I'd heard some of it before, but didn't know about the pine trees. I've always wondered about that. Thanks!
Hugs,
DiannePlease log in to respond to this comment.To Jews, the pagan rites of Christians are the LEAST of the problem; to see a man hung on a cross, suffering in agony, like an insect pinned to a mounting board, is a most bizarre and demented centerpiece, for any religion!
Jews do surely need to remind those unthinking Christians that Judaism is the original tree of faith; Christianity, merely an offshoot branch of that tree.
But, Merry Christmas!!
Paul
Please log in to respond to this comment.You know, I sometimes hesitate to say or write "Merry Christmas" because I'm not all that Christian ... well, not really at all if the truth be told. I'd have to say I'm more Taoist than anything else. No matter.
Nevertheless, "Christmas" means something very specific to me and so I do use it. I can't help what it might mean to others. Sounds harsh, doesn't it?
Still, that whole business over "Happy Holidays" a few years back had me a bit riled. Some people use "Season's Greetings." I don't think that's too bad. But given how the Druids celebrated the season ...
Thanks for the "Merry Christmas!!" and I'll offer a Happy Chanukah!
Please log in to respond to this comment.I am a bagel and lox Jew, not a true believer, but I thank you, nonetheless!Please log in to respond to this comment."Still, that whole business over "Happy Holidays" a few years back had me a bit riled"
Why, though?Please log in to respond to this comment.Mainly just because a few disgruntled people were trying to force everyone else to look at things the same way they did. Or so it seemed to me. I think there is room for all sorts of differing perceptions.Please log in to respond to this comment.I recall sitting at a Christmas table with a woman opposite me whose sweater blinked tiny lights off and on, constantly; I don't know how it worked, but after three glasses of wine, I wanted to unplug her!Please log in to respond to this comment.If you unplug me, I have a built-in battery..:)Please log in to respond to this comment.
Oh well, another day at the office. Thanks for coming in Paul. Hope you have a happy whatever you call this time of the season.Please log in to respond to this comment.Actually, as I am half Jew and half Christian, I put eight trees on the front lawn and set fire to them...........Please log in to respond to this comment.
Thanks Paul, although you and I disagree about the importance of Jesus death on the cross at Passover. Jesus (God incarnate of Trinity) came to be the final Passover Lamb for the sins of those who would accept him.
What most practicing Jewish people do not understand is that Christians are Jewish by adoption (whereby we cry Abba Father), through salvation into God's family, because of the death of Jesus on the Cross. Jesus came to deliver us from the curse of the law....what law? Ceremonial law, that required the killing of lambs for foregiveness of sin...it's not complicated.
The tree, presents, 12/25 celebration are as you say, derived from a Druid time of the Church's response to a Pagan holiday. Most Christians accepted this holiday celebration, because they felt a need to promote Jesus birth. Since no one knows the exact day, although it had to do with paying taxes for Joseph and Mary in Bethlehem, the day chosen was of little consequence to argue about. I love to hear Christmas carols, see decorations, and enjoy the smells and joys of other celebrations...and have celebrated some myself.
Although we do not put up a tree, nor exchange fancy gifts now (we do things for each other, and I give the children/grandchildren gifts) Christmas is in the heart, it is love that is shown in an outward expression through a gift. Nothing wrong with it. Merry Christmas Paul.
Please log in to respond to this comment.Actually, as I am half Jew and half Christian, I put eight trees on the front lawn and set fire to them...........Please log in to respond to this comment.ROFL Marshmellows on a stick?? Smores? You are too funny. I hope those aren't pine trees, so much sap.
Happy Hannakuh and Merry Christmas 50/50Please log in to respond to this comment.I try hard to be funny so it's nice when I succeed!Please log in to respond to this comment.
This is so always you Paul- sheer unaduterated, unfarnished truth- Thanks for always being you--Think I'll write a Christmas article, and be me. Always EllaPlease log in to respond to this comment.The unmet friend, ya'll are!Please log in to respond to this comment.I recall sitting at a Christmas table with a woman opposite me whose sweater blinked tiny lights off and on, constantly; I don't know how it worked, but after three glasses of wine, I wanted to unplug her!Please log in to respond to this comment.
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