Is New Year's Day Pagan?
In our recent examination of Christmas , we saw how the holiday began as a church attempt to sanitize the devil worship of the heathens, and that nearly every modern Christmas tradition stems from the pagan celebrations of Saturnalia and Yule. The modern face of Christmas, Santa Claus, is a repackaging of false gods such as Odin, Saturn, and Kronos — nothing less than Satan the Devil in disguise. If you haven ’ t yet read that post, please do. It lays the groundwork for this one. So what about New Year’s Day, eight days after Christmas? The holiday of fireworks, parades, staying up until midnight, and dressing up in costume, as pictured above? New Year’s Day is just the first day of a new year, right? How could there be anything wrong with that? You may recall that Christmas embraces the whole “Christmas season,” and that it often encompasses 12 days from December 25th to January 6th. New Year’s Day is not only part of the Christmas season but, like Christmas itself, is steeped i...