Why do christians celebrate christmas and easter when both have pagan roots?
Farsight’s answer is correct. The pagan festival at Christmas would be the winter solstice (shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere) and Easter would be a spring festival. Oddly enough Easter eggs predate Christianity – the word Easter has the same root as that in oestrogen the female hormone and is related to ‘egg’ which symbolises new life, the start of the new season etc. Similarly the ‘Easter bunny’ which in other countries is the hare (Paas Haas in Dutch for example) is another symbol of spring. So no Christians are not celebrating pagan deities or festivals – they’ve just made their dates coincide.
Because overall we have yet to come all the way out of “Babylon” (2 Cor. 6:14-18; Rv. 18:4). While i believe there are far better Christian than i who do celebrate Christmas, i do not for the below reasons. And i and am set free not to do so, and it is usually those who celebrate the feast of Christmas who persecute those who wish to worship in freedom of the Spirit, and not in legalism, which the basic requirement to observe Christmas falls into, that of ” teaching for doctrines the commandments of men” (Mark 7:7) . 1. Christmas was not Christian to be begin with, but is a product of Rome’s attempt to appease pagan “convert” with a “Christianized” version of Saturnalia. 2. God does not need help from distinctly pagan elements, and the Bible does not support Christianizing of such, but God makes a new creation (2Cor. 5:17). 3. The Bible also reproves the liturgical annual observance of “days, and months, and times, and years” (Ga. 4:10; Col. 2:16), except for the first day of the week
