Redeeming Christian Holy Days: Brumalia in the Roman Republic
Brumalia–Pre-Julian Latin Sources: Chronological Presentation One of the modern claims against Christmas is that Christians took the ancient Roman holiday known as Brumalia…
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Redeeming Christian Holy Days: The Christians Stole December 25th
How does a Christian deal with claims like this? The tactic used in this meme is intimidation. There is no way most readers…
Redeeming Holy Days from Pagan Lies — Easter, Eggs, and Nowruz
By now most Americans have probably heard of the Iranian/Persian New Year festival called Nowruz, or No Ruz. One of the more recent…
Redeeming Holy Days-Candlemas/Presentation
Candlemas is February 2nd, forty days after the birth of Christ it is the Festival of the Purification of Mary. The Gospel Lesson…
Christ Myth Theory: Horus? Born of a Virgin? Not!
One of the many points falsely claimed in Christ Myth Theory about the supposed dependence of Christ upon the legends of Egypt is…
Redeeming Holy Days from Pagan Lies: Christmas and Saturnalia
Did Christianity Steal the Date of Pagan Winter Solstice Celebrations? The Roman celebration discussed in this article is the multi-day festival of Saturnalia….
Redeeming Holy Days from Pagan Lies: Christmas and Sigillaria
Do the Nativity sets Christians use actually have their origins in the pagan Roman festival called Sigillaria? Sigillaria Macrobius in Saturnalia 1.11.46-50 discusses…
Redeeming Holy Days from Pagan Lies: Christmas and Juvenalia
Did Christianity Steal the Date of Pagan Winter Solstice Celebrations? Juvenalia is one of those Roman festivals that is claimed as a winter…
Christ Myth Theory [Jesus is a copy-cat]
This particular claim toward pagan sources for Christianity and Christian Holy Days goes under various names: Jesus Myth Theory, Jesus Mythicism, Mythicism, Copy-cat…
Redeeming Holy Days from Pagan Lies: All Hallows’ Eve in the Mediaeval Church and the Reformation
On All Hallows’ Eve 1517 a monk named Martin Luther posted a list of points for discussion and debate at the University of…
Redeeming Holy Days from Pagan Lies: All Saints’ Day/Eve and Samhain
All Saints’ Eve, All Saints’ Day: Origins and Samhain-ization Today it seems that everyone knows that Halloween is originally a Celtic pagan holy…
Redeeming Christian Holy Days from Pagan Lies: Nativity of St. John (Part 3)
This is the third article on the Nativity of St. John. This article will deal with the Neo-Pagan practice of claiming Celtic origins,…
Redeeming Christian Holy Days from Pagan Lies: Nativity of St. John (Part 2)
The Claims about Pagan Origins for St. John’s Nativity This is the second of three articles on the Nativity of St. John and…
Redeeming Christian Holy Days from Pagan Lies: Nativity of St. John (Part 1)
This is the first part of three on the Nativity of St. John the Baptist/Midsummer Day June 24th is celebrated as St. John’s…
Redeeming Christian Holy Days: St. Walpurga and Beltane
The evening of April 30th through May 1st is a significant date in the modern neo-Pagan and Wiccan calendar. It is called: Beltane,…
Redeeming Christian Holy Days: Another Bunny Attacks
A brief note on the misuse of Bodleian Library Manuscript Bodl. 264 Folio 21 This image is now being used to demonstrate pagan origins…
Redeeming Holy Days from Pagan Lies-Easter 2
This is a reposting of a pair of articles published last year on the origins of Easter and some Easter traditions. The sources…
Redeeming Holy Days from Pagan Lies-Easter 1
This is a reposting of a pair of articles published last year on the origins of Easter and some Easter traditions. The sources…
Redeeming Holy Days from Pagan Lies — Ash Wednesday and Lent
Image via Wikipedia Falat Julian Ash Wednesday, watercolor, 78 x 113 cm (detail) So, what are the supposed pagan origins of Ash Wednesday…
Redeeming Holy Days from Pagan Lies — Ash Wednesday and Lent
Image via Wikipedia Falat Julian Ash Wednesday, watercolor, 78 x 113 cm (detail) So, what are the supposed pagan origins of Ash Wednesday…
Redeeming Holy Days-Candlemas/Presentation
Candlemas is February 2nd, forty days after the birth of Christ it is the Festival of the Purification of Mary. The Gospel Lesson…
Redeeming Holy Days from Pagan Lies — Christmas and Sol Invictus
We are reposting this from Dec 4, 2012: Did Christianity Steal the Date of Sol Invictus? The claim is that Sol Invictus…
Redeeming Holy Days from Pagan Lies — Christmas
We are reposting this from Dec 3rd, 2012: Of the major Christian Holy Days, Christmas, Easter and Pentecost are the high points…
Redeeming Christian Holy Days: Halloween Resources pt. 1
Resources on the History of Halloween Part 1. Origins of All Saint’s Day and the Origins of Samhain This article is an effort…
Redeeming Holy Days from Pagan Lies — Hallowe’en: A short history
Responding to some of the comments that came in when we last published this post in Oct of 2012, we are attempting to…