Usually their are certain days of the year when I try to keep my criticism and comments to myself, in the interest of the great holiday I will try not to be too provocative. Regardless of the origins of the traditional holidays we have in western society, I have always found it pathetic how they have been exploited and corporatized to make a profit. The Holiday Racket is out of control, and I've been wondering if people are aware of this, or if they simply don't care. I must admit, I love the holidays, I love seeing family and friends. At the same time I would never walk up to a Native American and wish them a Happy Thanksgiving. I'm sure it's all about perspective, and mine being a liberal one, I see a lot of the negative that goes in, and comes out Holidays.
Having a natural interest in ancient religions and spirituality, I have always studied the life of famous deities, prophets, truth seekers, etc. etc. Jesus being the most popular of them all, I studied a lot about his life, the lost years spent in India, I even researched some of the theories that Jesus visited the Americas and brought healing and a philosophy of love to the Native Americans. (http://www.wolflodge.org/sananda/walked-america.htm). Surely such an important figure to Western Society deserves a day to celebrate his life, I don't believe that message is lost at all on Christmas. What I'm really questioning is the date surrounding this very holiday. There are a lot of people that believe Christmas is simply a Pagan holiday marking the sun being reborn, and that the story of Jesus is a Roman myth intended to keep the status quo of the time. Very possible, although the more research I do into the subject, the more uncertain I am. One thing I am certain about, this very day, December 25th, and the annual celebration did not originate with the birth of Jesus. Almost all scholars on the subject have Jesus being born around September 11th 3 AD. What it most likely did originate from, was the ancient Roman festival called "Saturnalia" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturnalia) held in honor of the Roman God Saturn.
The point of all this? I dunno, nothing maybe? Surely one can live there life completely happy not knowing that what they're celebrating on a specific day was a lie to them. The Ancient Romans, whom we in the Western world have adopted the majority of our customs from, had an agenda for the people at the top to keep the people on the bottom in a subservient-slave mentality. The Council of Nicea, was directed by Constantine and religious leaders at the time changed around Christianity to what we know of it now. A Christianity that better served the agenda of the Roman leaders.
The point of this is not to belittle, or destroy anyone's beliefs. I simply think it's important for people to do their research into things. I certainly think there's a possibility that I could be wrong on a lot of things, but I still put time into research and investigate to do my best at making an informed opinion or perspective. Given the paradoxical nature of the universe, one can prove their beliefs with one word, so clearly I've been wasting my time...
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