Petition: GIVE US BACK OUR HOLIDAY (Politics)

by Ash, Monday, December 14, 2009, 12:49 (227 days ago)
edited by Admin, Tuesday, December 15, 2009, 01:05

Pagans Protesting Christmas
Target:
World Leaders
Sponsored by:
United Pagans

Christmas is currently celebrated on December 25th. however, the birth of Jesus Christ was not December 25th, it was actually sometime between May and September. December 25th was a date that was agreed on by the early church to replace Pagan festivals to confirm Christianity's predominance over the old religions.

This is a great social, cultural and religious injustice, and should be changed. Christians should not be allowed to continue to celebrate their holiday on a date that was stolen in order to attempt to wipe out other cultures' beliefs and practices.

Many Pagan holidays are celebrated by followers of Aboriginal and Neopagan religions around the world on or around this date, including Wiccans who celebrate Yule. Due to the fact that Christians have stolen this holiday, many Pagan practices have been integrated into their activities, and have been twisted to meet THEIR needs. This is not only offensive, it is something that saddens many followers of various Pagan religions.

Although the solstice is actually around the 22nd, the elevation of the sun's path is most noticeable a few days after the Solstice, so many celebrations are held on the 25th. This is a PAGAN holiday, and should be recognized as such. In addition to ancient Solstice celebrations, December 25th marks the births of many ancient Pagan Gods. I.E.- Mithras, Attis, Osiris, Dionysus and is also the date of the Sun-God celebration of Saturnalia.

"Christmas" to many Pagans represents centuries of hypocrisy, lies and persecution. Even if you aren't Pagan, I urge you to sign this petition and help make this long overdue change.

This petition's goal is 1,000,000 plus signatures. Paganism is the fastest growing collective religion in the world. Wiccans and other Pagan faiths have the same rights as every other religious faith, and this petition represents the Pagans who want their holiday back.

Please sign this petition to recognize this holiday as a Pagan holiday, and take Christ out of it. This petition will be sent to world leaders of countries celebrating "Christmas" and we will be lobbying here in the United States to make these changes. Please help us in our quest to restore a holiday that is rightfully ours, and has been since ancient times.

Thank you for taking the time to read this, and thank you for helping us.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/RESTORE-YULE-TO-PAGANS

"We are NOT trying to take away the Christians' right to celebrate Christmas. We are demanding that they move the holiday to Jesus' real birth date and stop mocking our holiday. Christmas was created by the church to wipe out existing Pagan festivals. It was premeditated and designed to force conversions and destroy other religions' beliefs and cultural practices.

If they want to celebrate their holy day, they can go ahead and do it. However, when they decided to PLAN it and USE it to destroy OUR holy day they committed a CRIME. Christmas on the 25th of December represents hypocrisy, lies and the persecution of Pagans, and it has GONE ON FOR LONG ENOUGH. Pagans who didn't conform were KILLED.

Would you ask the Jews to celebrate Passover and call it Nazi day? I think not. Why should we be smacked in the face with the word "Christmas" on one of OUR religious holidays when it represents our own religious persecution that lasted for centuries?"