Every December, much of the world celebrates Christmas, which commemorates the birth of Jesus of Nazareth.
LOVE the Christmas season, though I suppose being non-religious I should say, winter holiday season
Yes, there are many ways to celebrate it, with or without the religious side. Do you like Christmas carols?
I do. I love to hear the carolers sing and when younger used to carol myself
Some of the traditional carols come from way back in Roman times. Makes sense, I guess.
Yes, the celebration of the Winter Solace, or, in bald terms, some celebration to lift spirits in gloomy dull times where everybody was cold and probably hungerier than in the warmer months.
by a majority of Christians, as well as culturally by many non-Christians, and forms an integral part of the holiday season centered around it.
The traditional Christmas narrative, the Nativity of Jesus, delineated in the New Testament says that Jesus was born in Bethlehem, in accordance with messianic prophecies. When Joseph and Mary arrived in the city, the inn had no room and so they were offered a stable where the Christ Child was soon born, with angels proclaiming this news to shepherds who then further disseminated the
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Though some of these songs do tend to develop an association with Christmas or the holiday season, such an association tends to be much shorter lived than the more traditionally themed Christmas songs such as "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday", "Mistletoe and Wine" and "Merry Christmas Everyone", and the songs may have nothing to do with Christmas or even winter. Some notable and longer-lasting examples include Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" (