Christmas is getting closer are you all fed up with the hype or are you generally excited about it

I find Christmas so very interesting - see my thread called Jul, for example.

Mercia was pagan, the Bretons were pagan, Wessex was Christian and the Danes were pagan. In 878, Guthrum defected to Wessex, and was baptised a Christian (with a whole bunch of other high ranking Danes) - but he was actually pagan. The baptism was political, so rather than replacing Jul with the Christmas they merged over the following years. The festivals were already similar due to just plain old people mixing with one another over the years, but this event was important to us, because this is where our version of the modern festival was formed. Or rather, the modern version of both festivals.

Every year, I manage to learn something more. This year, it was the Norway has the same festival of Jul, but has a different time span for it. It was only six or seven years ago I discovered most of the rest of the UK (even most of the rest of Yorkshire!) has no concept of Jul at all. You just assume what you do is the same as what everyone else does.

So yeah, it drags on a bit and like that advert on telly, yes, it's a bit boring, and a celebrity death really helps - but it's still fundamentally interesting - a living piece of history.

Yes but it was few months back if educated. I enjoy replying to Merry Christmas with You not real Christian if do not know that was months ago. I also refuse go to church on Sunday. Real Christian Church should worship on Saturday. Since no nearby churches are real I do not go to church. Also real churches do not use modern garbage music but sing real hymns from hymnal. If wanted to go to concert I go to one I hate loud music at churches worse they not smart enough know day of rest on Saturday not Sunday. So places should be open Sunday but not Saturday if were real Christians.

Again, a merger of traditions. This is the rebirth of Baldur, and the birth of Mithras, it's not coincidence Jesus latched on.

I'm not convinced forgetting a birthday reduces the validity of your worship though. It's a pretty recent trend that people know their date of birth. If you look back even just seventy or eighty years, an awful lot of records are filled in inconsistently from folk who don't know when they were born. Back two thousand years or so when there were no records at all? I'm not convinced Jesus cares. At all.

It doesn't matter what day of the week you go to church.
Your body is the temple of God and therefore, you can worship HIM any day of the week, every day of the week.

In regards to day of rest, it doesn't matter which day you choose it to be.
We always chose Sunday. If truth be known, it might have been on the day after the 7th that He rested.
No one really knows.

I love Christmas and I always have.

Altho Christmas has become so commercialized in regards to shopping, It's always a wonderful time of year,
no matter what day you choose celebrate it.

It's a celebration of Jesus birth, the child sent by God to forgive everyone of their sins, that so believe in Him.