The Annual War over Christmas -- by christians

I have little problem blaming him, after all, what is the point of having guilt if you cannot delegate it?But no, that post was simply a response to the assertion that " biblical references are for protestants. "Christianity has a long, honored tradition of simply taking over most everything from earlier religions. After all, Christianity remade Passover into Easter, Shavout into Pentecost.

The Council of Nicaea was not held in Rome but rather in "Nicaea" which is in Turkey.Constantine called the Bishops together but did not preside over any of the meetings or even have a vote.Easter was already a holiday, the issue since it is a floating holiday was to agree on the method to calculate when Easter fell.The Council of Nicaea did not centralize the Bishopric.

I'm sorry but that is just more nonsense and misrepresentation.Christianity had a history going back hundreds of years before Constantine of taking existing holy days, traditions and holy sites of other religions and incorporating them into Christianity. Even Paul used that tactic.The Council of Nicaea did not centralize the Bishopric and in fact recognized that both the Bishop of Jerusalem and Alexandria would hold position of priority.Constantine had nothing to do with Christianity adopting Sunday as their Sabbath; that was done by Christians to help differentiate themselves as a separate religion and not just another Jewish sect long before Constantine.Easter is simply the adoption of Passover from the Jews and came long before Constantine.Christmas is simply the adoption of the Winter Solstice.Pentecost was simply Christianity adopting Shavout.Have you ever read the Bible or studied anything about Christian history?