Myths And Traditions Of Christmas

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Christmas is considered as the major festival of Christians. There are many people of different religions who are engaged in Christmas in different ways. During the days of Christmas there are holidays all over the world and many types of occasions took place for this event. Christmas is a historic festival which was used in different ways and by different religions. After the time of Christ many Christians related the festival of Christmas with Christ and that happened some four hundred years ago.

Christians, Jews and pagans are major tribes who are engaged in Christmas and perform special activities which are coving almost two months every year. Different types of stories are related with Christmas and these are in the form of good people performing good tasks for people. Angels are also engaged in performance of good tasks so that the people could get benefits and have a peaceful life. Traditions and celebrations started in the fourth century for celebration of Christmas.

Before that time the Christians and other people used to celebrate the date of birth of Christ in any time in the months of January to May. ...
... Christians consider the personality of Christ as the light for the whole world. They have selected the 25th of December as the birth day of Christ as that time is also related with the important events associated with gods in the past times. Main celebration of Christmas lasts for almost 12 days and it starts on 25th of December these days.

This festival is similar with many other festivals of different religions. Such festivals are for the happiness and support of poor people in society. In past, the masters were giving many benefits for their slaves, during these days of festivals and the society became a good place for poor people in those days. Number of Christians is increasing with time due to which the popularity of Christmas is also increasing.

Many people following other religions are also supporting Christmas and helping Christians and greeting them in this time in different ways. Santa is an important factor in Christmas which also came from another community of Dutch people. Saints played an important role for management of Christmas in this present form. Santa was another person who was in fact a saint in past and performed important acts due to which he was given the title of Santa in Christmas. There are many types of myths which are linked with Christmas event.

One myth is related with the training of demons by saints. This training was to make sure that the bad kids are treated well for making them good and also give them punishments if they are not on the right track. This is the main reason that Santa is giving gifts to kids who are all considered to be good. Christians believe that Christ is a god and his mother is also god and there are totally three gods. This is a main difference among the religion of Christ due to which they are celebrating the Christmas.

Christians are celebrating Christmas as they have a belief that Christ has given his life for all the Christians. And now Christians are free to do any task in the world as they are going to get forgiveness from real god because of the sacrifice of Christ for them in the past. Muslims are not celebrating Christmas as they believe that Christ is a prophet of Allah as all other prophets and Christ is not dead. Christ is going to come back on earth and live his remaining life till his death.

However despite the differences among thoughts and religions there are no barriers for Christians to celebrate Christmas in any part of the world. In past, there were problems in celebration of Christmas, as the dominating religions were against Christians at places, where the Christians where they were in minority. With the passage of time the leaders of countries admitted that every person following a religion must be given right to live and celebrate the religious festivals. Now Christmas and all other festivals related with different religions are celebrated by their followers without problems in many parts of the world.

Many festivals related with different types or religions were celebrated in past and there was a clash when the celebration of Christmas started. The dates were linking or very close to the festivals due to which people started to create problems of Christmas and other related events celebrated at that time. That problem was dealt through the increasing popularity of Christianity and increase in the number of followers. Now many other festivals are eliminated and Christmas is celebrated collectively all over the world without problems.

Christmas has a main focus on kids and to make sure that they are ready to make the future of the nation and religion. Demons are thought to be in search of lazy kids and punishing them in Christmas days therefore all the kids try to keep themselves active and involved in good tasks. It is hard to find bad kids during the times of Christmas as all the kids are trying to be good so that they could be saved from demons.

There is a reward for all the good kids so that bad kids in normal days are pretending to be good kids in order to get rewards from Santa in days of Christmas. Holidays of Magical Christmas are connected with the holidays of New Year and people enjoy the festival with many types of benefits.