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5. Christmas is a wicked act…

day? When we look at its origin, it was the date of the winter

solstice on the Roman calendar, which was one of the festi-
vals in pagans of Rome. When winter comes, the altitude of
the sun is getting lower, so the winter solstice is the longest-
night of the year and is the shortest-day of the year. Then,
they saw the phenomenon which starting from the winter

solstice day, the altitude of the sun rose again, and the night
was getting shorter and the day was getting longer. So they
worried with this, ‘what if the sun does not rise again, what if
it goes down and then goes away, so is not it a big problem?’
So they assumed when the sun rises again, it will be a victory

that overcomes night, and also will be a victory against the
darkness. That’s why they selected December 25 as a day of
festival to celebrate the victory of the sun and share the joy,
and also as a day of worship. And they called it a winter sol-

stice festival or Brumalia festival.
However, after the Apostolic times, the Church suggest-
ed that Christianity should also have Christmas day because
Jesus Christ has come to the dark world as light, and has
overcome the darkness, so they thought that there was a rela-

tion between the birth of Jesus and the winter solstice festival.
Therefore, it has been passed down through church history
that they would like to Christianize the pagans by accepting
the festival day as Christmas day, so they accepted the 25th of

December as a feast to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, who

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