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It was suicidal not to go along with the crowd at that time. To avoid persecution the early Christians decked their halls with bows of Holly, but celebrated the birth of Jesus, instead of Mithras. Although they still celebrated the birth of Jesus in the time of the virgin: , at the change of the year in early September.

Natalis Solis Invicti:

Originally early Christians coincided the birth of the Messiah with Rosh Hashanah, the feast of Trumpets, or feast of the Announcement, on the new moon, first day of the month Tishri, the New Year of the Jewish calendar, which fell during the sun sign of Virgo

In the year 274 AD, the Roman Catholic Emperor Aurelian proclaimed the date of Natalis Solis Invicti, to be December 25th In 320 AD the winter solstice came on December 25th. The Catholic pope Julius declared December 25th to be the "official" day of the birth of Christ.

In 325 the Roman Emperor Constantine, never a Christian until the day he died, declared the feast to be immovable; that is, it would always fall on December 25th. In 354 AD the first Christian Catholic Bishop Liberius of Rome, ordered all Christians of Rome to celebrate the Catholic mass of Christ on December 25th, thus establishing for all time the myth that Christ's birth, and the Christ mass, were on the same day. At this time most Christians everywhere else still did not recognize this date as the birthday of Jesus.
Enforced deception:
It took another hundred years or so before the Catholic Church of Rome began forcing Christians to celebrate the birthday of Mithra. The Catholic cultos throughout Greece still celebrated the birthday of Mithra, the Roman Catholics still celebrated the feast of Saturnalia, and now the Christians must capitulate. The Roman Catholics ordered the Christians to observe December 25th-the Christians did so because they had to celebrate the birthday on December 25th, or else.

At that time they all knew full well the difference, but for Christians, to be different meant death, to the Catholics, being different meant being not Catholic (universal). To the Catholics, anyone different from them was a heretic. God had appointed them to be His church, and God wanted all heretics to burn in hell, so burning them here first would give folks a taste of what these people would endure for all eternity.
It would surprise most Christians today to learn that there were historic battles fought between Christians and Catholics over the doctrinal issue of Christmas.
Protestants ban Christmas:
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