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Q: Why is the day after Christmas known as Boxing Day ? â A.M. Answer: Boxing Day dates from the Middle Ages. It is a holiday in several countries, including Britain, Australia and Canada. It s a tradition of giving to the needy on the day after Christmas. One theory for the name of Boxing Day is that churches would open their alms box (in which people had put gifts or money) on that day and distribute the contents to the poor. Working tradespeople had adopted the custom of saving up their tips in a box, to be opened on Dec. 26. Later, hordes of neighborhood-service providers would show up at the doors of the rich, asking for a Christmas box, according to the Encyclopedia of Christmas by Tanya Gulevich. ....
Holiday Origins: Is Christmas a pagan holiday? Posted on Several years ago, in a documentary called “Religulous” (clever, right?), Bill Maher claimed that most of the story of Christ, especially the parts about His birth, were cribbed from pagan mythology. After all, Maher claimed, the Egyptian God Horus was born of a virgin on December 25th, was baptized, had twelve disciples, performed miracles, and ultimately died and rose again. Christianity, said Maher, is nothing but a cheap knockoff. The problem is, as numerous critics have pointed out, Maher’s claims are complete nonsense. No original source material backs up his description of Horus or, for that matter, of Mithras or Krishna, two other deities Maher claims early Christians copied. ....