Nothing. What’s Wrong With You?!

‘Merry Christmas anyway!’ Whatever Mikep was trying to say in his email, on December 19, I made the mistake of replying to my good friend with that greeting. He emailed back, ‘You know very well Christmas is a pagan holiday. So let’s celebrate!’

That’s a triple strike. One, Mikep is American, pagan – he has no religion; so, let the pagans celebrate! Two, he’s in the USA, I’m in the Philippines. Three, he knows that I, Filipino, am Roman Catholic, and it was the Catholic Church that instituted the celebration of Christmas on December 25, thank you very much. This was the birthday of the Roman god Mithra, ‘god of the unconquerable sun’ and thus this day of the dying year was ‘the most sacred day of the year’ (history.com). He was also called Mithras, the god who continued to give life to the earth (roman-empire.net). Do you see? The Catholics, not to mention the Protestants, these purportedly civilized people, are celebrating a pagan festival – at the very least, shouldn’t they be ashamed of themselves?

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