December the twenty-fifth is just another day of freezing-cold.

I don't know what all these people are talking about saying that some guy died over 2000 years ago... if they love him so much how come they're celebrating his death?

Anyhow, if you do celebrate Christmas, I wish you a memorable day.

Love.
Colonel the Tolerant.

aaa..his death ?

Today is celebrated His birth .

According to the bible Jesus was born during the summer... clearly unless he was born in Canberra he couldn't have been born in December, so the celebration is definitely not of his birth. I just presumed it was of his death.

we know that his death was around March - May .
The Gospel of Luke mention that Jesus was born in summer, or around March- November.
This'' 25 december'' as his birthday was introduced by Constantine the Great, to replace a Roman pagan holyday , the Saturnalia.

His dead took place in Spring , as most of the christian countryes celebrate it.

So basically you're celebrating a random day that used to be a pagan holiday just because some crazy Italian guy decided that that was the day Jesus was born even though it quite plainly isn't?

lol? He was more Roman/Greek than Italian.

Yup. A doco I saw said he was born somewhere around April, in 6 BC.

Da. And there's a man in a red suit that barges into your house at night.

Why don't they teach geography in 'Murica???

Constantine ruled from Constantinople, not Roma.

P.s. don't pretends to know when you don't know and everybody else does

What if I'm pretending not to know when everyone, including myself, knows.

Constantinople was the capital of the Byzantine Empire, not the Roman Empire. Constantinople, when it was conquered by Muslims, was renamed, and is currently called Istanbul, and is in Turkey, not the Hellenic Republic. So he was Turkish in modern terms?

I consider those who consider themselves as Arab from Syria, Jordan and Lebanon who cannot trace their roots back to an Arabian tribe as all Arabised Romans. Egyptians are also an Arabised people.

There were no Turks in Anatolia at the time.

So who were they? Roman? What were their roots? Nobody is answering my damned questions!

They were mostly Greeks.

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Rome was still the capital of the Empire i believe, but Constantine ruled from Constantinople. Hellenistic culture had indeed spread very deep into anatolia and in Constantinople at this time (as well as the Levant and Egypt).

In modern terms he'd be Hellenistic Roman.

Constantine was born in Naissus, which is in modern day Serbia. He wasn't Italian in the slightest, even supposing Italian was a term that had meaning in the 4th century.

Eh when i say Roman i mean empire-wide. When you say Italian i assume you mean those born native to the peninsula.