Why December 25 is Christmas
As I keep posting about, Christmas on December 25 is NOT due to there being a pagan holiday on that day. Repeat: Christmas is NOT based on the Roman festival of Sol Invictus. Substantial scholarship...
View ArticleChristmas was NOT based on the Roman Juvenalia
In his continuing series that we’ve been blogging about exploding the myth that Christmas was based on a pagan holiday, Rev. Joseph Abrahamson takes on the view recently pushed on the History Channel...
View ArticleThe myth of the Christmas myth
It’s still Christmas, there being 12 days of that season, so thanks to Truth Unites. . .and Divides for posting in the comments to another thread this video from Rev. Hans Fiene at Lutheran Satire....
View Article#7 most popular Cranach blog post of the year
On April 16, we linked to another post that dismantled myths about the origins of Easter, which became the seventh most viewed post of the year: Easter did NOT come from a pagan holiday. And in honor...
View ArticleThe myth that Christ is a myth
The arguments are going around that Jesus Christ was little more than a mash-up of ancient mythical figures. It is true that, as C. S. Lewis has said, that myths–such as those about death and...
View ArticleWhy Christmas is on December 25
Touchstone has reposted its most popular article, the scholarly treatment by historian William J. Tighe from 2003 about why the birth of Jesus is celebrated on December 25. And, as he definitively...
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