How do Pagans celebrate Christmas? ?
they celebrate Yule. “Yule is a winter festival historically celebrated primarily in northern Europe but now celebrated in many other countries in various forms. Yule celebrations often coincide with Christmas. Modern Yule traditions include decorating a fir or spruce tree, burning a Yule log, hanging mistletoe and holly branches, giving gifts, and general celebration and merriment.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yule Christians stole the holiday, claiming is was a day to celebrate jesus christ’s birth and called it christmas. but, in turn, still used the same traditions as the pagan holiday. “According to the medieval English writer the Venerable Bede, Christian missionaries sent to proselytize among the Germanic peoples of northern Europe were instructed to superimpose Christian themes upon existing local pagan holidays, to ease the conversion of the people to Christianity by allowing them to retain their traditional celeb