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Christmas is about celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, and also to celebrate Saint Nicholas. In the time of Jesus, he would drop money down the chimneys of people in poverty. Today, children hope wonderful gifts will drop down their chimneys. As less and less houses have chimneys, the tradition of presents by the chimney, in stockings has switched to presents under the tree.
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Santa was green until Coca-Cola began to put him in a red suit on their advertisements. Since the 70's, when the commercial was made, Santa has a red suit.
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∙ 11y agoChristians will tell you that Christmas is all about celebrating the birth of Jesus over 2000 years ago. However, prior to the emergence of Christianity there were pagan celebrations about the same time, the most notable was winter solstice on December 21/22. Many Theologians dispute the story that Jesus was born in December. There is also evidence to suggest that the Winter Solstice celebrations were "converted" into a christian celebration at around the time the Romans took on Christianity as their main religion
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A Christ mas plant?
mistletoe
Why is it that we have Christmas?
because christ mas is when jesus was born... ( christ mass)
When do Portugal get their Christmas presents?
They have it on the Portugal christ mas when their christ was born
Why is MAS on the end of Christmas?
Mas means 'worship', so as christ is jesus, as the saviour, christmas literally means worship of the saviour.
Why do you call Christmas Christmas?
Because christ means jesus and it's jesus's birthday, and mas means birthday,and instead of saying christ mas we put it together into one word, called Christmas
Why is it called X-mas instead of Christmas?
X-mas is the atheist way of saying Christmas. It's called Christmas as in Christ. Atheist's don't believe in that, so they get rid of that. X is Christ crossed out.
What sumbollically doex the X represent in x mas?
It stands for Christ, the first letter in Greek ( Chi, or X) for Christ
When does Tonga celebrate Christmas?
they celebrate christ mas by going to a salt lake
Why isn't the holiday Christ Mas instead of Christmas?
because they have it the way they want it to be
How many syllables are there in Christmas?
The word Christmas has two syllables. Christ-mas.
What is the opposite of Christmas?
X-mas? It's crossing out the Christ in Christmas for Christians.
Where did the aberveation x-mas of Christmas come from?
The 'X' comes from Roman times when 'X' meant 'Christ', so as an abbreviation, they said 'X-Mas'.
