The Christian church is the most influential church in the world and is the chosen faith to billions of people around the world. What is truly amazing about the Christian faith is exactly how much of their customs and traditions are derived from the Greek and roman era. The Christian faith could be thought of as a historical mosaic that has been pieced together by many earlier stories and rituals to create their religion. Though the Greek religion has long since died away, their faith lives on through the church fathers of modern day Christianity. From their stories and symbols, to their rituals and gods, all are encoded inside the faith of Christian followers.
The date of birth of Jesus has been lost since 300 a.d., historical records found in a small town near in Iran in the late eighteen hundreds proved that our chosen date for the birth of Jesus is wrong. The information given by the writings say that Jesus was in fact born in February not December, but unfortunately for us many other writings that were in the area have been destroyed by war and weather. The ancient Christian church fathers chose December twenty-fifth because it was a major religious date for another religious cult that has sense gone obsolete, the Pagans. The Pagans were a sun worshiping people that were based in ancient Rome. The pagans used to pray and worship the sun god from December twenty-first, the shortest day of the year, to December twenty-fourth. On the fifth day the people would celebrate sharing their harvest and gifts with each other. This religious celebration was accepted by the Christian church and has been used since. Also according to ancient Christian traditions Christ died on March 23 and was resurrected on ...