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Part One: Keep the Yuletide Gay: Saturnalia & the Puritan War on Christmas

Behind the Bastards

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The Canonical Christmas Story

There's another holiday that the Christians celebrate around the same time of year. The date of December 25th comes from the magicians coming to visit Jesus and they mapped out where he would be based on like star charts. So years later when the magicians came with gifts, they came on December 25th, which is then why we give gifts on Christmas. In a more medieval Christmas,. the magi show up 12 days later as the 12 days of Christmas and it's called Epiphany, it's January 6th. And then there's like, I read like five different versions of how they came up with December 25th. It doesn't say anywhere in the Bible when Jesus was born

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