Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me About Christmas

Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me About Christmas It's almost as much a Christmas tradition as eggnog and Rankin/Bass - The political left's propaganda disparaging Noel appears like clockwork every December. The season inevitably triggers progressives into rantings and ravings about the "white supremacist" evils of western culture, Christianity and the need for a more "secular" or "multicultural" form of celebration. In other words, Christians aren't allowed to have their own holidays. Protected holidays are only reserved for cultures with spicy foods and child marriage. And, if you went to a public school in the west in the past few decades you probably dealt with multiple liberal teachers who regaled you with their "profound insights" on the "true history" of western holiday traditions. The problem is, most of what these teachers tell their students is a lie based on generations of carefully crafted political narratives. The disinformation campaigns against Christmas have been so effective in the past that there are even groups of Christians that actually believe the same nonsense and repeat it as if they have discovered some fantastic conspiratorial secrets that only "true Christians" know. Let's examine some of these lies and why they are historically inaccurate... Lie #1: Christmas Is A Pagan Holiday? Utterly false in every way, but many western students have heard this claim thousands of times over and AI chatbots continue to spread the fallacy today. The idea comes from the incorrect claim that Christmas is an artificial amalgamation of traditions stolen from pagan events like Saturnalia and the Roman Solis Festival as a way to convert the heathens centuries ago. Saturnalia was held on Dec 17, not Dec 25, and focused on animal sacrifices and a loosening of moral rules. Christmas was started as a completely separate tradition with separate beliefs and a Christian message. The Roman Solis Festival was created a century after Christians began celebrating December 25th as the birth of Christ. Surviving Roman records from Hyppolytus mention Christmas as early as 200AD. Hippolytus of Rome (c. 170-235 AD) is widely regarded by modern scholars as the earliest known Christian writer to effectively calculate the birth of Jesus as December 25th. The earliest calendar record of the pagan Solis Festival was 354AD, over 150 years later. It was created by Roman Emperor Aurelian, who was a pagan hostile to the spread of Christianity. He sought to co-opt or compete with Christian celebrations, rather than Christians trying to co-opt paganism. Lie #2: The Birth Date Of December 25th For Jesus Is Completely Made Up? The date of December 25th for the birth of Jesus was a deduction from scripture, analyzed in conjunction with historical knowledge about those who worked in the temple. St. Luke related the announcement of the birth of St. John the Baptist to his elderly parents, St. Zechariah and St. Elizabeth. St. Zechariah was a priest of the class of Abijah (Lk 1:5), the eighth class of 24 priestly classes (Neh 12:17). Each class served one week in the...

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