Not to Scrooge on your fun, but some facts about the Yuletide season really border on the sacrilegious!
What if, instead of a carol, someone offered a curse?
"Tis no season to be jolly. Let this Christmas malice steal the 'merry' out of the festivity and may all our Christmases be free from white lies..."
We would forever be banned from any Yuletide festivity in this merry country. Grinch though we'd like to be, being left out is never on top of our list.
The reason we want some semblance of sobriety to the Christmas progrom is that, if you were so idle as to check the origins of the Yuletide season, you'll find out that a lot of its symbols-even the date itself!-we owe largely to heathens and pagans who used them for wanton debauchery.
The facts:
THE DATE IS A HOAX!
Traditional Christmas day contradicts what's written in The Book that shepherds are staying in the fields to "watch over their flock at night" during the nativity, which suggests it is spring time. Legends have it that the date was selected by the church in the 4th century to challenge a fellow religion on the rise that also celebrates the birth of their god on December 25! The church obviously won.
SANTA CLAUS IS JUST A MASCOT!
The kid-loving fat man was just a character in a classic poem (A Visit from St. Nicholas) and his popular image was first drawn by cartoonist Thomas Nast in 1863 for an ad. Santa's other name, Father Christmas, was actually a 15th century character who represented holiday merrymaking and drunkeness.
PAGAN PARTIES
The rejoicing, merriment, exchanging and giving gifts is rooted in pagan custom as well. During the celebration of the winter feast Saturnalia everyone feasts and rejoices, friends gather to exchange presents, and people indulge themselves in all kinds of amusement and partying-an age-old tribute to the god Saturn carried on today.
A CHRISTMAS SIN!
Pagans didn't cut down trees because they considered it a sin against nature. They however decorated living trees with bits of metals and sun replicas to 
signify the rebirth of their sun god after the winter solstice. They also adorned their houses with boughs of evergreen trees to worship vegetation. All these is said to have brought the idea of the Christmas tree.
signify the rebirth of their sun god after the winter solstice. They also adorned their houses with boughs of evergreen trees to worship vegetation. All these is said to have brought the idea of the Christmas tree.
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So, what is YOUR opinion of the holiday? I don't want canned reasoning for hating the holiday, what is your personal reason for posting this?
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