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Originally Posted by GeneticKiss
Jesus wasn't born in December. The church stole the Winter Solstice from pagans to get them to convert to Christianity.
I'm not saying Jesus didn't exist or that he didn't do good things, but I don't believe he was the "savior" of mankind, Mary had him without Joseph fucking her, or that he could've been born in a barn in the winter.
The Bible was written by people with little to no understanding of the world around them, and has been re-written so many times to fit the winners' idea of history that it cannot be relied upon as a source of information.
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They understood how to write persuasive and pervasive literature. And the Bible's not been massively revised in getting on 1200 years. It has, however, been pared down considerably.
'Pagans' don't exist. It was a by-word for non-Christians, same as barbarians in ancient Greek. The recent (20th-century) reconstruction of 'paganism' shouldn't be confused with the older Christian use of the word 'pagan' which referred to possibly hundreds or thousands of folk religions (including Zoroastrianism, Mithraism and Valentinian gnosticism).
The 'Winter solstice' consolidation is right, but it's not clear if it was a religious festival (like Ramadan) or just a festival (like the Saturnalia).
Sorry, just wanted to pick holes unnecessarily. I'm going back to my hole.