The Invention of Christmas: Was Jesus Really Born on December 25th, 0 A.D.?

Short answer: 100% nope.

Common Faith
Common Faith
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15 min readDec 21, 2020

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Correggio, 1529

Christmas.

Christos-mass.

The messiah-king feast.

As a child I believed, like most good church-goers, that Jesus was born on December 25th, 0 A.D. This date is 100% inaccurate, for two reasons:

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