So much if not most of what we have in our culture comes from paganism because the world as a whole does not acknowledge God. Even people who say they are Christians who are not pagans use the terms and festivals of the pagans without bothering to find out where the rituals and sayings come from. Because they enjoy the hoopla of the rituals they justify them by pretending to at Christ's name to them. This is the same thing that happened in the days of Amos. God hated that they claimed the festivals were about Him but really they were about the enjoyment of the people for the fun they enjoyed at that time, God had nothing to do with it. He didn't command it and was no part of it.
Amos 5:21-23
21 “I hate, I reject your festivals,
Nor do I [a]delight in your solemn assemblies.
22 “Even though you offer up to Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings,
I will not accept them;
And I will not even look at the peace offerings of your fatlings.
23 “Take away from Me the noise of your songs;
I will not even listen to the sound of your harps."
Matthew 15:7-9 "…7You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you: 8‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. 9They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’ ”…"
Why else do you think the pagans, the unsaved and the rebellious people love these holidays so much because they are not of God but make them feel good.
Notice something else? The unsaved world does not celebrate the Lord's supper, the one Christ commanded. Why? Because there has been no worldly pleasures associated with the celebration of Christ's death, burial, and resurrection. The world only wants their fun and their pleasure they have no use for Christ.
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