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The Biblical story has the shepherds out in the fields with their flocks when an angel heralds the birth of Jesus and there is some debate about whether this wo
by wavefunction 5y ago
The Biblical story has the shepherds out in the fields with their flocks when an angel heralds the birth of Jesus and there is some debate about whether this would have been the case during the Winter. Christmas is definitely based on pagan traditions though, which you can see in the traditions of bringing a tree into the house and decorating it.
- throw0101a 5y ago> The Biblical story has the shepherds […] If you're going for 'historical accuracy', that'd be an argument, but that may not have been much of a consideration 2000 years ago. > Christmas is definitely based on pagan traditions though, which you can see in the traditions of bringing a tree into the house and decorating it. Some early mentions around 700 AD, but didn't really become a big thing until the 1500s and Protestantism it seems. That'd be fairly far removed from co-opting Pagan traditions, which were probably not practiced for a few hundred years at that point: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_tree#Religious_issues https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_tree#Religious_issue... Though these are on the secular side of things, as most liturgies don't incorporate them. This was mainly for Europeans, AFAICT. Not sure how many Christians in tropical countries are doing the tree thing. Though with globalization and mass media, Western practices may be more spreading more places in recent years/decades.