Merry Christmas & Happy 2017!
In this special episode, we look at the history of why the birth of Jesus is celebrated in late December, the pagan holidays it usurped, and excerpts from two of Martin Luther’s Christmas sermons.
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I had come across your podcast after listening to the History Of The Christian Church podcast, where this podcast was one of the recommendations to listen to next. So I started binge listening (I guess I should call it “intersperally listening”, as I intersperse the episodes into my already full podcast listening routine) late in 2018 and am almost through all of the episodes now. I did listen to this particular one (the Christmas special!) a week ago and wanted to comment on it. I have heard all of the “Christians stole the pagan festivals and turned them into Christian holidays” diatribes for so long, and I decided to investigate it myself, as I was tired of atheists telling me that my faith was just a copycat. It turns out that Christmas was actually celebrated first! Now granted, we took over things like the Christmas tree and the yule log, but the actual celebration on December 25th was initially a Christian celebration. Here is a good post on it:
https://diatheke.blogspot.com/2012/12/redeeming-holy-days-from-pagan-lies_1.html
Follow the embedded link within that post to find an even more detailed discussion.
Blessings!
Kurt,
Thanks for your email. I hope you have been enjoying the program. I will certainly check out the website you highlighted. If I have anything in error, definitely glad to review. Maybe it will be the subject of a new Christmas Special for 2019! Also, you might have noticed that the program has been on a break. Life got in the way, but want you to know that it is my intent to get back to the program.
Blessings & Peace to you!
Steve