WaterGirl said:
Wrong again. The actual day the arrival of the three wise guys is celebrated is in January. The 6th of January IIRC -- at least in Germany.
Therefore some people (Orthodox Christs? No idea) originally celebrated the gift-part on that date (commercialism has pretty much made that obsolete tho).
Neither Jesus nor anyone else of biblical importance was born on December 25th (nor 24th) nor did anyone of noteworthy arrive at that point. It was simply a date that didn't interfere with anything else of religious importance for Christians and happend to be close to the shortest day of the year (which was celebrated by the pagans whom the Christians were trying to convert at that point).
I don't know if any other calculations went into the decision, but it definitely has no biblical reason.
Besides. Jesus was a fucking Jew and most likely looked more like Osama Bin Laden than anything else. I doubt there were any christmas trees or Europeans around when he was born in Betlehem (if he existed at all) either. The entire western depiction of the story is bullshit.
