My favorite holyday has always been Christmas. I can remember from when I was little going to my grandparents’ house to eat good food and unwrap presents under their over-decorated tree. It was such an exciting day for me that I would make calendars to count down every day of December until it was Christmas.
Interestingly enough, that same holyday has now become my least favorite. I still enjoy gathering as a family and being together, but new light has been shed on Christmas that has changed my feelings for it. Christmas is not the day of Jesus’ birth. It is in fact, the day of Tamuz’s birth. Tamuz was the son of an Empress long ago. She claimed that the Sun God has impregnated her with Tamuz and that Tamuz was to be worshipped and celebrated. Thus, on December 25 of that year, a holy-day was erected for him. Many years later the church tried to come to an agreement or compromise with the heathens and by doing that the church changed several things about herself. 1) She gave up the seventh-day and worshipped on Sunday, 2) she melded her days of celebration with that of the heathens (I.e. Jesus’ birth which was in spring now was celebrated on Tamuz’s birthday so both groups of people could celebrate and also holydays such as Valentine’s was adopted to honor the Fertility God).
I’m sad to say that with this knowledge Christmas is a less enjoyable season for me. It seems to be frivolous and unnecessary and I wish the Seventh-day Adventist church did not celebrate it.
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