==PAGANISM OF NEW YEAR -4= >>>>>>>>HISTORY::: In 46 B.C.E. the Roman emperor Julius Caesar first established January 1 as New Year’s day. Janus was the Roman god of doors and gates, and had two faces, one looking forward and one back. Caesar felt that the month named after this god (“January”) would be the appropriate “door” to the year. The Romans, after the adoption of the Julian calendar, kept the 1st of January as a general holiday. Sacrifices were made to Janus; gifts and visits were exchanged, and masquerading and feasting were general... >>>>>>>>>>>> WHATS JANUARY??? Janus was of course the two-faced Roman God who gave rise to the name of our first month of January. >>>>>>>>>>>>>EARLY CHURCHS POINT OF VIEW::: --- Participation in the ordinary New Years Day observation as well as in the Saturnalia of December was from the first discouraged by the Church. ---- as Christianity became more widespread, the early church began having its own religious observances concurrently with many of the pagan celebrations, and New Years Day was no different. ---- During the Middle Ages, the Church remained opposed to celebrating New Years. January 1 has been celebrated as a holiday by Western nations for only about the past 400 years. >>>>>>>>HOW DID D INVENTOR CELEBRAT NEW YEAR??? ----Caesar celebrated the first January 1 New Year by ordering the violent routing of revolutionary Jewish forces in the Galilee. (OOPS) Eyewitnesses say blood flowed in the streets. (I HOPE NO JEW IS AROUND) --- In later years, those Roman pagans observed the New Year by engaging in drunken orgies—a ritual they believed constituted a personal re- enacting of the chaotic world that existed before the cosmos was ordered by the gods. ---now a days christians exchange gifts, get drunken, dance full night as they have no control over themselves with all kinds of enjoyment & madness. >>>>>>>> INSERTION OF THIS PAGANISM IN CHRISTIANITY:: ----- When about the 5th century the 25th of December had become a fixed festival commemorative of the Nativity, the 1st of January assumed a specially sacred character as the octave of Christmas Day and as the anniversary of the Circumcision. -- Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th edition, 1911 ------- Among the 7th century pagans of Flanders and the Netherlands, it was the custom to exchange gifts at the New Year. This was a pagan custom deplored by Saint Eligius (died 659 or 660), who warned the Flemings and Dutchmen, (Do not) make vetulas, [little figures of the Old Woman], little deer or iotticos or set tables [for the house-elf, compare Puck] at night or exchange New Year gifts or supply superfluous drinks [another Yule custom]. The quote is from the vita of Eligius written by his companion, Ouen. ==========BIBLICAL VIEW ON PAGAN CUSTOMS======== God Hates All Pagan Customs and Traditions— Including New Year’s -----Jeremiah 10:2-3: “Learn not the way of the heathen…for the customs of the people are vain.”
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