Is celebrating Christmas on December 25th something that came from paganism? NO.
To summarize the notion that "Christmas is a Pagan Holiday": “We are told, by popular cultural and academic tradition of recent centuries, that there’s no way Jesus was born on December 25. In fact, the only reason we celebrate Christmas Day on December 25 is because the early Christians adapted a pagan holiday to hide their faith in a still-hostile culture” It is argued that Emperor Constantine (early 300s) tried to Christianize a pagan holiday to make his new faith more acceptable to pagan Romans. He chose Dec. 25th, the date of Sol Invictus . The Roman Festival of Saturnalia took place between December 17th and 23rd and honored the Roman god Saturn. The Romans also thought that the Solstice took place on December 25th. It's also thought that in 274 the Roman emperor Aurelian created 'Dies Natalis Solis Invicti' (meaning 'birthday of the unconquered sun') also called 'Sol Invictus' and it was held on December 25th. The myth is that AFTER the p...