Before the time of Moses, in the false pagan religion of Baal Worship (sun
worship), every December the 25th was celebrated as the rebirth of the false
sun god baal. To celebrate this, the people would hang little round balls on
the trees as symbols of the sun, and they would give gifts to one another.
The pagan religion of baal worship spread into different lands, using
different names for the false gods and false goddess. Baal worship got into
the pagan roman religion of ancient rome, and some of the traditions and
feast days of the roman religion got into roman catholicism.
Christmas, which is basically named after a mass for Christ is a roman
catholic holiday, and the pagan tradition of giving gifts on Dec. 25 and
hanging balls on trees got into this holiday. - But, it is a pagan practice
and it really has nothing to do with the birth of Jesus Christ.
So, I spent a small amount of time composing a little song about the matter:
Oh Christmas Tree
Oh pagan tree, Oh pagan tree!
Keep yourself away from me!
O pagan tree, O pagan tree!
A false religion, invented thee.
O pagan tree, O pagan tree!
False Baal worship spawned thee.
O pagan tree, O pagan tree!
The birth of Christ,
Has nothing to do with thee!
O pagan tree, O pagan tree!
Tiny globes hang like a bell.
Symbols of the sun god!
That deceived men into hell.
O pagan tree, O pagan tree,
Indignation you bring to me.
I am not a song writer. If anyone else on this forum can write a better song about it, then post it here. You can use this popular abominable song to copy from.
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree!
How are thy leaves so verdant!
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,
How are thy leaves so verdant!
Not only in the summertime,
But even in winter is thy prime.
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,
How are thy leaves so verdant!
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,
Much pleasure doth thou bring me!
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,
Much pleasure doth thou bring me!
For every year the Christmas tree,
Brings to us all both joy and glee.
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,
Much pleasure doth thou bring me!
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,
Thy candles shine out brightly!
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,
Thy candles shine out brightly!
Each bough doth hold its tiny light,
That makes each toy to sparkle bright.
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,
Thy candles shine out brightly!
http://www.biblebelievers.com/babylon/sect31.htm
online book, THE TWO BABYLONS, by Alexander Hislop
That is not my original source, but this one will do nicely.
It is rather long but it contains what I said in my post.
Hislop, an expert on ancient religions, has over 200 references in that
book.
How, then, did the Romish Church fix on December the 25th as Christmas-day?
Why, thus: Long before the fourth century, and long before the Christian era
itself, a festival was celebrated among the heathen, at that precise time of
the year, in honour of the birth of the son of the Babylonian queen of
heaven; and it may fairly be presumed that, in order to conciliate the
heathen, and to swell the number of the nominal adherents of Christianity,
the same festival was adopted by the Roman Church, giving it only the name
of Christ. This tendency on the part of Christians to meet Paganism half-way
was very early developed; and we find Tertullian, even in his day, about the
year 230, bitterly lamenting the inconsistency of the disciples of Christ in
this respect, and contrasting it with the strict fidelity of the Pagans to
their own superstition. "By us," says he, "who are strangers to Sabbaths,
and new moons, and festivals, once acceptable to God, the Saturnalia, the
feasts of January, the Brumalia, and Matronalia, are now frequented; gifts
are carried to and fro, new year's day presents are made with din, and
sports and banquets are celebrated with uproar; oh, how much more faithful
are the heathen to their religion, who take special care to adopt no
solemnity from the Christians." Upright men strive to stem the tide, but in
spite of all their efforts, the apostacy went on, till the Church, with the
exception of a small remnant, was submerged under Pagan superstition. That
Christmas was originally a Pagan festival, is beyond all doubt. The time of
the year, and the ceremonies with which it is still celebrated, prove its
origin. In Egypt, the son of Isis, the Egyptian title for the queen of
heaven, was born at this very time, "about the time of the winter solstice."
The very name by which Christmas is popularly known among
ourselves--Yule-day --proves at once its Pagan and Babylonian origin. "Yule"
is the Chaldee name for an "infant" or "little child"; * and as the 25th of
December was called by our Pagan Anglo-Saxon ancestors, "Yule-day," or the
"Child's day," and the night that preceded it, "Mother-night," long before
they came in contact with Christianity, that sufficiently proves its real
character.
Even where the sun was the favourite object of worship, as in Babylon itself
and elsewhere, at this festival he was worshipped not merely as the orb of
day, but as God incarnate. It was an essential principle of the Babylonian
system, that the Sun or Baal was the one only God. When, therefore, Tammuz
was worshipped as God incarnate, that implied also that he was an
incarnation of the Sun. In the Hindoo Mythology, which is admitted to be
essentially Babylonian, this comes out very distinctly. There, Surya, or the
sun, is represented as being incarnate, and born for the purpose of subduing
the enemies of the gods, who, without such a birth, could not have been
subdued. *
* See the Sanscrit Researches of Col. VANS KENNEDY. Col. K., a most
distinguished Sanscrit scholar, brings the Brahmins from Babylon (Ibid.). Be
it observed the very name Surya, given to the sun over all India, is
connected with this birth. Though the word had originally a different
meaning, it was evidently identified by the priests with the Chaldee "Zero,"
and made to countenance the idea of the birth of the "Sun-god." The Pracrit
name is still nearer the Scriptural name of the promised "seed." It is
"Suro." It has been seen, in a previous chapter, that in Egypt also the Sun
was represented as born of a goddess.
It was no mere astronomic festival, then, that the Pagans celebrated at the
winter solstice. That festival at Rome was called the feast of Saturn, and
the mode in which it was celebrated there, showed whence it had been
derived. The feast, as regulated by Caligula, lasted five days; * loose
reins were given to drunkenness and revelry, slaves had a temporary
emancipation, ** and used all manner of freedoms with their masters.
This was precisely the way in which, according to Berosus, the drunken
festival of the month Thebeth, answering to our December, in other words,
the festival of Bacchus, was celebrated in Babylon. "It was the custom,"
says he, "during the five days it lasted, for masters to be in subjection to
their servants, and one of them ruled the house, clothed in a purple garment
like a king." This "purple-robed" servant was called "Zoganes," the "Man of
sport and wantonness," and answered exactly to the "Lord of Misrule," that
in the dark ages, was chosen in all Popish countries to head the revels of
Christmas. The wassailling bowl of Christmas had its precise counterpart in
the "Drunken festival" of Babylon; and many of the other observances still
kept up among ourselves at Christmas came from the very same quarter. The
candles, in some parts of England, lighted on Christmas-eve, and used so
long as the festive season lasts, were equally lighted by the Pagans on the
eve of the festival of the Babylonian god, to do honour to him: for it was
one of the distinguishing peculiarities of his worship to have lighted
wax-candles on his altars. The Christmas tree, now so common among us, was
equally common in Pagan Rome and Pagan Egypt. In Egypt that tree was the
palm-tree; in Rome it was the fir; the palm-tree denoting the Pagan Messiah,
as Baal-Tamar, the fir referring to him as Baal-Berith. The mother of
Adonis, the Sun-God and great mediatorial divinity, was mystically said to
have been changed into a tree, and when in that state to have brought forth
her divine son. If the mother was a tree, the son must have been recognised
as the "Man the branch." And this entirely accounts for the putting of the
Yule Log into the fire on Christmas-eve, and the appearance of the
Christmas-tree the next morning. As Zero-Ashta, "The seed of the woman,"
which name also signified Ignigena, or "born of the fire," he has to enter
the fire on "Mother-night," that he may be born the next day out of it, as
the "Branch of God," or the Tree that brings all divine gifts to men. But
why, it may be asked, does he enter the fire under the symbol of a Log? To
understand this, it must be remembered that the divine child born at the
winter solstice was born as a new incarnation of the great god (after that
god had been cut in pieces), on purpose to revenge his death upon his
murderers. Now the great god, cut off in the midst of his power and glory,
was symbolised as a huge tree, stripped of all its branches, and cut down
almost to the ground. But the great serpent, the symbol of the life
restoring Aesculapius, twists itself around the dead stock, and lo, at its
side up sprouts a young tree--a tree of an entirely different kind, that is
destined never to be cut down by hostile power--even the palm-tree, the
well-known symbol of victory. The Christmas-tree, as has been stated, was
generally at Rome a different tree, even the fir; but the very same idea as
was implied in the palm-tree was implied in the Christmas-fir; for that
covertly symbolised the new-born God as Baal-berith, * "Lord of the
Covenant," and thus shadowed forth the perpetuity and everlasting nature of
his power, not that after having fallen before his enemies, he had risen
triumphant over them all.
* Baal-bereth, which differs only in one letter from Baal-berith, "Lord of
the Covenant," signifies "Lord of the fir-tree."
Therefore, the 25th of December, the day that was observed at Rome as the
day when the victorious god reappeared on earth, was held at the Natalis
invicti solis, "The birth-day of the unconquered Sun." Now the Yule Log is
the dead stock of Nimrod, deified as the sun-god, but cut down by his
enemies; the Christmas-tree is Nimrod redivivus--the slain god come to life
again. In the light reflected by the above statement on customs that still
linger among us, the origin of which has been lost in the midst of hoar
antiquity, let the reader look at the singular practice still kept up in the
South on Christmas-eve, of kissing under the mistletoe bough. That mistletoe
bough in the Druidic superstition, which, as we have seen, was derived from
Babylon, was a representation of the Messiah, "The man the branch." The
mistletoe was regarded as a divine branch *--a branch that came from heaven,
and grew upon a tree that sprung out of the earth.
Jeremiah 10:2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
Jeremiah 10:3 For the customs of the people [are] vain: for [one] cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
Jeremiah 10:4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
Jeremiah 10:5 They [are] upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also [is it] in them to do good.
Jeremiah 10:6 Forasmuch as [there is] none like unto thee, O LORD; thou [art] great, and thy name [is] great in might.
Jeremiah 10:7 Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise [men] of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, [there is] none like unto thee.
Jeremiah 10:8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock [is] a doctrine of vanities.
Jeremiah 10:9 Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple [is] their clothing: they [are] all the work of cunning [men].
Jeremiah 10:10 But the LORD [is] the true God, he [is] the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.
Jeremiah 10:11 Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, [even] they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.
worship), every December the 25th was celebrated as the rebirth of the false
sun god baal. To celebrate this, the people would hang little round balls on
the trees as symbols of the sun, and they would give gifts to one another.
The pagan religion of baal worship spread into different lands, using
different names for the false gods and false goddess. Baal worship got into
the pagan roman religion of ancient rome, and some of the traditions and
feast days of the roman religion got into roman catholicism.
Christmas, which is basically named after a mass for Christ is a roman
catholic holiday, and the pagan tradition of giving gifts on Dec. 25 and
hanging balls on trees got into this holiday. - But, it is a pagan practice
and it really has nothing to do with the birth of Jesus Christ.
So, I spent a small amount of time composing a little song about the matter:
Oh Christmas Tree
Oh pagan tree, Oh pagan tree!
Keep yourself away from me!
O pagan tree, O pagan tree!
A false religion, invented thee.
O pagan tree, O pagan tree!
False Baal worship spawned thee.
O pagan tree, O pagan tree!
The birth of Christ,
Has nothing to do with thee!
O pagan tree, O pagan tree!
Tiny globes hang like a bell.
Symbols of the sun god!
That deceived men into hell.
O pagan tree, O pagan tree,
Indignation you bring to me.
I am not a song writer. If anyone else on this forum can write a better song about it, then post it here. You can use this popular abominable song to copy from.
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree!
How are thy leaves so verdant!
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,
How are thy leaves so verdant!
Not only in the summertime,
But even in winter is thy prime.
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,
How are thy leaves so verdant!
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,
Much pleasure doth thou bring me!
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,
Much pleasure doth thou bring me!
For every year the Christmas tree,
Brings to us all both joy and glee.
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,
Much pleasure doth thou bring me!
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,
Thy candles shine out brightly!
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,
Thy candles shine out brightly!
Each bough doth hold its tiny light,
That makes each toy to sparkle bright.
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,
Thy candles shine out brightly!
http://www.biblebelievers.com/babylon/sect31.htm
online book, THE TWO BABYLONS, by Alexander Hislop
That is not my original source, but this one will do nicely.
It is rather long but it contains what I said in my post.
Hislop, an expert on ancient religions, has over 200 references in that
book.
How, then, did the Romish Church fix on December the 25th as Christmas-day?
Why, thus: Long before the fourth century, and long before the Christian era
itself, a festival was celebrated among the heathen, at that precise time of
the year, in honour of the birth of the son of the Babylonian queen of
heaven; and it may fairly be presumed that, in order to conciliate the
heathen, and to swell the number of the nominal adherents of Christianity,
the same festival was adopted by the Roman Church, giving it only the name
of Christ. This tendency on the part of Christians to meet Paganism half-way
was very early developed; and we find Tertullian, even in his day, about the
year 230, bitterly lamenting the inconsistency of the disciples of Christ in
this respect, and contrasting it with the strict fidelity of the Pagans to
their own superstition. "By us," says he, "who are strangers to Sabbaths,
and new moons, and festivals, once acceptable to God, the Saturnalia, the
feasts of January, the Brumalia, and Matronalia, are now frequented; gifts
are carried to and fro, new year's day presents are made with din, and
sports and banquets are celebrated with uproar; oh, how much more faithful
are the heathen to their religion, who take special care to adopt no
solemnity from the Christians." Upright men strive to stem the tide, but in
spite of all their efforts, the apostacy went on, till the Church, with the
exception of a small remnant, was submerged under Pagan superstition. That
Christmas was originally a Pagan festival, is beyond all doubt. The time of
the year, and the ceremonies with which it is still celebrated, prove its
origin. In Egypt, the son of Isis, the Egyptian title for the queen of
heaven, was born at this very time, "about the time of the winter solstice."
The very name by which Christmas is popularly known among
ourselves--Yule-day --proves at once its Pagan and Babylonian origin. "Yule"
is the Chaldee name for an "infant" or "little child"; * and as the 25th of
December was called by our Pagan Anglo-Saxon ancestors, "Yule-day," or the
"Child's day," and the night that preceded it, "Mother-night," long before
they came in contact with Christianity, that sufficiently proves its real
character.
Even where the sun was the favourite object of worship, as in Babylon itself
and elsewhere, at this festival he was worshipped not merely as the orb of
day, but as God incarnate. It was an essential principle of the Babylonian
system, that the Sun or Baal was the one only God. When, therefore, Tammuz
was worshipped as God incarnate, that implied also that he was an
incarnation of the Sun. In the Hindoo Mythology, which is admitted to be
essentially Babylonian, this comes out very distinctly. There, Surya, or the
sun, is represented as being incarnate, and born for the purpose of subduing
the enemies of the gods, who, without such a birth, could not have been
subdued. *
* See the Sanscrit Researches of Col. VANS KENNEDY. Col. K., a most
distinguished Sanscrit scholar, brings the Brahmins from Babylon (Ibid.). Be
it observed the very name Surya, given to the sun over all India, is
connected with this birth. Though the word had originally a different
meaning, it was evidently identified by the priests with the Chaldee "Zero,"
and made to countenance the idea of the birth of the "Sun-god." The Pracrit
name is still nearer the Scriptural name of the promised "seed." It is
"Suro." It has been seen, in a previous chapter, that in Egypt also the Sun
was represented as born of a goddess.
It was no mere astronomic festival, then, that the Pagans celebrated at the
winter solstice. That festival at Rome was called the feast of Saturn, and
the mode in which it was celebrated there, showed whence it had been
derived. The feast, as regulated by Caligula, lasted five days; * loose
reins were given to drunkenness and revelry, slaves had a temporary
emancipation, ** and used all manner of freedoms with their masters.
This was precisely the way in which, according to Berosus, the drunken
festival of the month Thebeth, answering to our December, in other words,
the festival of Bacchus, was celebrated in Babylon. "It was the custom,"
says he, "during the five days it lasted, for masters to be in subjection to
their servants, and one of them ruled the house, clothed in a purple garment
like a king." This "purple-robed" servant was called "Zoganes," the "Man of
sport and wantonness," and answered exactly to the "Lord of Misrule," that
in the dark ages, was chosen in all Popish countries to head the revels of
Christmas. The wassailling bowl of Christmas had its precise counterpart in
the "Drunken festival" of Babylon; and many of the other observances still
kept up among ourselves at Christmas came from the very same quarter. The
candles, in some parts of England, lighted on Christmas-eve, and used so
long as the festive season lasts, were equally lighted by the Pagans on the
eve of the festival of the Babylonian god, to do honour to him: for it was
one of the distinguishing peculiarities of his worship to have lighted
wax-candles on his altars. The Christmas tree, now so common among us, was
equally common in Pagan Rome and Pagan Egypt. In Egypt that tree was the
palm-tree; in Rome it was the fir; the palm-tree denoting the Pagan Messiah,
as Baal-Tamar, the fir referring to him as Baal-Berith. The mother of
Adonis, the Sun-God and great mediatorial divinity, was mystically said to
have been changed into a tree, and when in that state to have brought forth
her divine son. If the mother was a tree, the son must have been recognised
as the "Man the branch." And this entirely accounts for the putting of the
Yule Log into the fire on Christmas-eve, and the appearance of the
Christmas-tree the next morning. As Zero-Ashta, "The seed of the woman,"
which name also signified Ignigena, or "born of the fire," he has to enter
the fire on "Mother-night," that he may be born the next day out of it, as
the "Branch of God," or the Tree that brings all divine gifts to men. But
why, it may be asked, does he enter the fire under the symbol of a Log? To
understand this, it must be remembered that the divine child born at the
winter solstice was born as a new incarnation of the great god (after that
god had been cut in pieces), on purpose to revenge his death upon his
murderers. Now the great god, cut off in the midst of his power and glory,
was symbolised as a huge tree, stripped of all its branches, and cut down
almost to the ground. But the great serpent, the symbol of the life
restoring Aesculapius, twists itself around the dead stock, and lo, at its
side up sprouts a young tree--a tree of an entirely different kind, that is
destined never to be cut down by hostile power--even the palm-tree, the
well-known symbol of victory. The Christmas-tree, as has been stated, was
generally at Rome a different tree, even the fir; but the very same idea as
was implied in the palm-tree was implied in the Christmas-fir; for that
covertly symbolised the new-born God as Baal-berith, * "Lord of the
Covenant," and thus shadowed forth the perpetuity and everlasting nature of
his power, not that after having fallen before his enemies, he had risen
triumphant over them all.
* Baal-bereth, which differs only in one letter from Baal-berith, "Lord of
the Covenant," signifies "Lord of the fir-tree."
Therefore, the 25th of December, the day that was observed at Rome as the
day when the victorious god reappeared on earth, was held at the Natalis
invicti solis, "The birth-day of the unconquered Sun." Now the Yule Log is
the dead stock of Nimrod, deified as the sun-god, but cut down by his
enemies; the Christmas-tree is Nimrod redivivus--the slain god come to life
again. In the light reflected by the above statement on customs that still
linger among us, the origin of which has been lost in the midst of hoar
antiquity, let the reader look at the singular practice still kept up in the
South on Christmas-eve, of kissing under the mistletoe bough. That mistletoe
bough in the Druidic superstition, which, as we have seen, was derived from
Babylon, was a representation of the Messiah, "The man the branch." The
mistletoe was regarded as a divine branch *--a branch that came from heaven,
and grew upon a tree that sprung out of the earth.
Jeremiah 10:2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
Jeremiah 10:3 For the customs of the people [are] vain: for [one] cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
Jeremiah 10:4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
Jeremiah 10:5 They [are] upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also [is it] in them to do good.
Jeremiah 10:6 Forasmuch as [there is] none like unto thee, O LORD; thou [art] great, and thy name [is] great in might.
Jeremiah 10:7 Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise [men] of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, [there is] none like unto thee.
Jeremiah 10:8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock [is] a doctrine of vanities.
Jeremiah 10:9 Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple [is] their clothing: they [are] all the work of cunning [men].
Jeremiah 10:10 But the LORD [is] the true God, he [is] the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.
Jeremiah 10:11 Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, [even] they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.
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