Popular Christmas Traditions and their Origins

Origin of the Christmas Tree

I love Christmas. I love everything about it, apart perhaps from the predictable fundamental Christians bleating on about the so called War on Christmas and their irksome ill-informed insistence that Jesus is the reason for the season. A few years back at my local church, I sat through the vicar’s ranting sermon shoehorned into the school carol concert. It was blatantly aimed at heathen parents like me that no longer routinely grace his ever-dwindling flock. I felt honour-bound to boo him…

And there’s a few other places in the bible that forbid Christmas Trees. Here’s this one: 1 Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: 2 Thus saith the Lord,…

Why Choose Yule? Go to my blog to learn more. Ancient pagan winter solstice festival Celebrated by Norse pagans, Wiccans, Druids Marks the rebirth of the sun and return of light. So if you want more meaning, skip the Christmas chaos! Honor the solstice season with good old-fashioned Yule traditions.

“Christmas is about Jesus, that’s why it’s called Christ’s mass” No it isn’t. All historical documents found that mention Jesus’ birth point to April, May,…

Christmas vs. Midwinter celebrations. I have some serious problems with this... I have talked with my Christian friends and my Pagan friends, and both agree on that it's not really Christian to celebrate Christmas what ever one calls that and which ever symbolism one tries to put it... because of Jeremiah 10: 2-5 But I am not here to tell you what you should do, and many Christians celebrate Christmas...

The celebration of Yule, deeply woven into the fabric of pagan traditions, marks the winter solstice, the shortest day and longest night of the year. This pre-C