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The real origins of Christmas – The Manila Times

ONE of the most powerful, persistent fake news that has been around for many centuries is that December 25 is the birthday of Jesus Christ, the central figure of Christianity, the biggest religion today with 2.4 billion adherents. This is not opinion or conjecture, but has been a well-established fact, even by Catholic scholars. Saturnalia (1783) by Antoine Callet: The first Christmas celebrations? The only other competing thesis of course, is that the man called Jesus has never existed. Indeed, ancient religions all had similar man-gods born of a virgin, with a God as invisible father even born around December 25 or near the December 22 solstice, that marked the beginning of the end of the “dark and cold” period of winter.

What History Really Tells Us About the Birth of Jesus

This article about the Nativity is republished here with permission from The Conversation. This content is shared here because the topic may interest Snopes readers; it does not, however, represent the work of Snopes fact-checkers or editors. I might be about to ruin your Christmas. Sorry. But the reality is those nativity plays in which your adorable children wear tinsel and angel wings bear little resemblance to what actually happened. Neither does your average Christmas card featuring a peaceful nativity scene. These are traditions, compilations of different accounts that reflect a later Christian piety. So what really happened at that so-called “first Christmas”?

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