Poetic Vibes

MERRY CHRISTMAS !! What is Christmas? Why its celebrated? Christmas is the annual Christian festival celebrating Christ's birth,   held on December 25 in the Western Church. The traditional date  of December 25 goes back as far as A.D. 273. Two pagan festivals  honoring the sun were also celebrated on that day and it is possible  that December 25 was chosen to counteract the influence of  paganism. To this day some people feel uncomfortable with  Christmas because they think it is somehow tainted by the pagan  festivals held on that day. But Christians have long believed that  the gospel not only transcends culture , it also transforms it. In  A.D. 320 one theologian answered this criticism by noting, “We  hold this day holy, not like the pagans because of the birth of the  sun, but because of him who made it.” Why its celebrated on 25th of December? There are two specific theories for why we use the date of December 25th for Christmas:- First, people and religio