My dear daughter,
We’ve come to your grandmother’s home for Christmas. It was your first road trip and fortunately everything went well.
The thing about Christmas is, even for Christians, it shouldn’t be celebrated on December 25.
If you analyze the gospels in the bible, Christ’s birth takes place somewhere between march and may.
The early Christians decided to celebrate it on December 25 as they spread their influence through northern Europe, in the first centuries of the Common Era. Until then, Christians didn’t care much for Christmas. They mostly celebrated Easter, which also didn’t have that name before they spread to Europe; it was simply Passover.
Northern European people celebrated the winter solstice on December 25; it was a celebration for the return of the sun. They brought branches and trees into their homes in hopes spring would return.
They wanted to associate Christ to that celebration. The idea was to compare him to solar gods, to the god sun in the zodiac, to the roman worship of Sol Invictus. Solar gods have three phases, they are born, they rule, they die, and they are reborn. There are many solar gods throughout history.
Other European gods also came from virgin births, resurrected and performed similar miracles. Religions are always borrowing elements from older religions.
That’s why they also moved christian’s worship day from Saturday (Saturn’s day) to Sunday (the god Sun’s day).
As for me, I think it’s more fitting to celebrate Isaac Newton’s birthday on December 25.
Anyway, we’re all here gathered with family to exchange gifts we bought at the mall, eat food which has nothing to do with the season in the tropics and uphold pagan celebrations and symbols no one really cares about anymore.
Love,
Dad
Aspergers Dad 