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Christmas as practiced today is a layered holiday whose date, some customs, and seasonal timing intersect with pre-Christian festivals such as Roman Saturnalia, Sol Invictus and Northern European Yule...
Bethlehem is a historic town in the West Bank long identified with the Nativity and widely regarded as the traditional birthplace of Jesus; UNESCO and numerous guides locate the Church of the Nativity...
Iran has never been a majority Christian country or a state officially governed by Christianity; instead, Christianity has been a long-standing minority faith on Iranian territory from roughly the ear...
The First Council of Nicaea did not set the Christian biblical canon; contemporary records of the council make no decision on which books belong in Scripture . The widespread myth that Nicaea or Const...
Claims to outlaw “pagan holidays” have historically come from state-backed Christianizing drives (e.g., Theodosius I’s late‑4th‑century decrees that abolished remaining pagan holidays in the Roman Emp...
Christianity began as a Jewish movement centered on Jesus of Nazareth and developed doctrine and institutions to preserve belief and practice; its history shows both liberating grassroots origins and ...
Historical documentation for Jesus’ life after the crucifixion is extremely limited and primarily theological rather than strictly historical. Contemporary claims and archaeological findings occasiona...
Christian theologians justified violence against non-Christians during the Crusades through a mix of historical precedent, theological development, and political exigency that transformed earlier non-...
Christianity's history includes well-documented episodes of organized and sporadic violence—ranging from state-backed crusades and inquisitions to local pogroms, colonial massacres, and intra-Christia...
Herbert W. Armstrong taught seventh-day Sabbath observance plus biblical “holy days” (Passover, Pentecost, Feast of Tabernacles, etc.) and rejected Christmas and Easter as pagan-derived; critics objec...
Christian nationalism is a political theology that fuses Christianity with national identity and seeks to privilege a particular version of Christianity in public life; scholars say it aims to make a ...