Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "Was Christmas Originally a Pagan Holiday Taken Over by the Church?" video.

  1. Halloween was All Hallows Eve, the day before All Saints Day which was a completely unrelated holiday.
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  2. My mother introduced me to the idea Christmas got its date from Saturnalia because there simply is no scriptural basis for having the holiday during the winter solstice. I'm honestly unsure, there are so many holidays tied to the equinox/solstices that the overlap may be coincidences and/or random stuff mixed together simply because both holidays existed in the same place at the same time (like Hanukah and Christmas).
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  3. It became the gift giving holiday in the industrial revolution when people had more discretionary money. Christmas trees were just something weird in select parts of Germany until a German princess became the English queen.
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  4. Hardly. A lot of holdiays are on the winter solstice to the point it is likely coincident
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  5. @LiterallyWho1917  no, it gave discretionary money to common people
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  6.  @diebesgrab  Not invented in the victorian era, and it's not a claim that has no evidence
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  7. Doesn't explicitly say, the dates come from how to line up with Jewish holidays in order to give the holiday prophet aspects, not the other way around
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  8. @Rynewulf  all of that could be explained by how both holidays occur around the same time and both were celebrated in the same towns
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  9. @Rynewulf  with easter the date is simply the date used in Rome because if anyone knew the Pope would. Of course, the problem was they were using the Julian calendar and Passover goes off the Hebrew calendar
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  10. Hanukah is 8 days long
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  11. Simply not so. Easter is from Passover, they just got the date wrong. Although it is thought so random pagan spring holidays got mixed in.
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  12. @craigkdillon  how did the pine tree become a Christian thing? Because a German princess became an English queen and make weird German things popular. IDK about the word Easter, but there's more than a little true randomness involved
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  13. @wanderingfool6312  that is also protestant propaganda. I haven't seen any source before the Reformation saying pagan statues were repurposed as saintly icons
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  14. @Rynewulf  yes, but the idea the holidays are paganism in disguise is the myth. It's just a bunch of random practices that have nothing to do with religion.
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  15. @dayofthejackyl  that didn't happen in this case. In this case it's the dark ages and no record exists
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  16. @MichaEl-rh1kv  no, it comes from Germany. A German princess became the English queeen. No one knows how the pine tree got associated with Christmas
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  17. @wanderingfool6312  the celtic crosses post date the church. The elaborate artwork didn't go away even after the Saxons took over
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  18. @111ram1  did not know that
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  19. He's not theologically accurate to any religion whatsoever. What is the issue?
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