Ive been a Satanist since i was 11 (used to be a LaVeyan one cos his bible is the only bit of info i could find.) But now i am a spiritual one cos of the JoS website. It really has touched me and i have done the dedication ritual and it made me feel great. however because I am currently being raised in a christian orthodox family, i am forced to celebrate christmas. So ive just been taking presents and thinking of it just like a random time of the year that i get free stuff. i DO NOT celebrate the fake idiots birth. It ok for me to keep doing this untill i am older and live on my own?
In the 4th century, xians imported the saturnalia festival hoping to take the pagan masses in with it. xian leaders succeeded in converting to christianity large numbers of pagans by promising them that they could continue to celebrate the saturnalia as christians.The problem was that there was nothing xian about saturnalia. To remedy this, these xian leaders named saturnalia's concluding day, December 25th, to be the worthless nazarene's birthday. xians had little success, however, refining the practices of saturnalia. The earliest christmas holidays were celebrated by drinking, sexual indulgence, singing naked in the streets. So obviously, xians stole the idea of christmas to make themselves more powerful.