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Precisely. Christmas is definitely not Biblically inspired just adopted by the church. Elements such as Santa are definitely not Biblical.

I am a Christian who doesnt celebrate Christmas because its origins are extrabiblical and pagan. The 7 feast days (Jewish holidays) are much more Biblical and Christian in my opinion. Even Easter is tainted because it was actually supposed to be the Passover (Pesach) but was based off a Pagan holiday instead.

Despite the obvious there are many Christians who will defend Christmas to their dying breath.

I have nothing against celbrating Christmas I just choose not to go out of my way to get a tree and I dont intend on lying to my kids about a fat man and toys.



I don't intend to lie to my children over ancient myths in general, but they can keep Christmas precisely because it's all in good fun.


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Please don't do religious flamewar on HN. It's not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


The line is obvious. I believe in my faith. Fat man isn't part of it. You can look front to back in any KJV, or Peshitta Bible and I doubt you'll find a direct story about a fat man giving toys to children, worse yet, Jesus being born in December isn't biblically supported.

Also it's very rude of you to not only attack my faith as a lie, but also to mock it. There's plenty of historical evidence of people from the Bible.




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