3 Reasons Why Black Millennials Are No Longer Celebrating Christmas

[MikelArteta]

Christmas is a pagan holiday

I don't celebrate solstice and I'm.a Christian

 

[Rozay Oro]

Sounds corny to me but if adults want to do this then whatever. It sucks for any kids that are going to miss out on memories and feel left out though.

birthdays>>>
fukk seeing your cousin getting better gifts

 

[MikelArteta]

As Christmas approaches, I would just like to remind y'all

 

[Turk]

Christmas isn't halal

 

[Solo ✧✦✧]

birthdays>>>
fukk seeing your cousin getting better gifts

not sure what this has to do with my point but ok

 

[wickedsm]

we do Christmas here
and i got decorations up
might put up the tree today

and it aint got shyt to do with white people
or anything to do with Church

family food and gifts

idk if somebody else doesnt want to celebrate

just leave us alone to celebrate at my house.

 

[Ol’Otis]

Saturnalia - Wikipedia


Saturnalia was an ancient Roman festival in honour of the deity Saturn, held on 17 December of the Julian calendar and later expanded with festivities through to 23 December. The holiday was celebrated with a sacrifice at the Temple of Saturn, in the Roman Forum, and a public banquet, followed by private gift-giving, continual partying, and a carnival atmosphere that overturned Roman social norms: gambling was permitted, and masters provided table service for their slaves. The poet Catullus called it "the best of days". must've been nice

 

[Rozay Oro]

not sure what this has to do with my point but ok

Christmas is overrated and theirs better ways to have good memories as a child and with your family in general

 

[Taharqa]

I'm not celebrating christmas cause i'm a poor college student. White santa is completely irrelevant

 

[Boolean]

My birthday on Dec. 28 ain't never had no Chrimmuh

 

[Solo ✧✦✧]

Christmas is overrated and theirs better ways to have good memories as a child and with your family in general

That's your opinion not a fact, it's the best holiday of the year for a lot of people and my point still stands. I feel sorry for anybody that missed out on enjoying Christmas as a kid.

 

[Rozay Oro]

That's your opinion not a fact, it's the best holiday of the year for a lot of people and my point still stands. I feel sorry for anybody that missed out on enjoying Christmas as a kid.

This is also an opinion

 

[Solo ✧✦✧]

This is also an opinion

In response to your pointless opinion that did nothing to disprove my point

 

[MikeyC]

He's dead

Died almost 2,017 years ago in January.

I thought that was his birth date?

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Saturnalia - Wikipedia

LOL, that has nothing to do with Christmas, breh.

December 25: no connection with Tammuz, Saturnalia, Sol Invictus & Mithras - Historum - History Forums

It is therefore hardly surprising that current scholarship typically dismisses the idea that identification of December 25 as the date of Jesus' birth was predicated on adoption, co-option, or replacement of pagan equinox festivities such as those for 'Sol Invictus', especially given the lack of evidence for such a pagan festival on this date prior to the Christian fixation on December 25 as the birth of Jesus.

This date was not connected with Saturnalia. Saturnalia wasn't on December 25, it was typically celebrated on December 17, sometimes from December 14 to 17, and even when it was later extended to a week it still ended on December 23, not December 25.

The second is that we don't have any historical evidence indicating that Saturnalia was influential on the choice of December 25 as the date of the birth of Jesus, still less the much later celebration of the feast of the nativity which came to be known as Christmas. This absence of evidence isn't positive evidence that Saturnalia was not influential in such a way (that would be an argument from silence), but it is negative evidence contra-indicating the theory that Saturnalia was influential in such a way.