Why is Christmas pagan and what is an alternative tradition to Christmas one can do instead? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others ...

CHARLESTON, W. Va. – A new policy at Marshall University will allow pagan students to miss classes to observe religious holidays or festivals. While many colleges have policies to protect students of ...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- The celebration of Christmas on Dec. 25 is more likely rooted in a Jewish tradition that puts important events at the same time each year than linked to a pagan winter ...

Many of us learned that Christians set the date of Christmas to co-opt pagan holidays. Both the Roman Saturnalia festival and Sol Invictus, the Feast of the Unconquered Son, fell around Dec. 25.

It seems that around Halloween every year there are articles in Christian publications and comments on Fox News about how Halloween is a pagan holiday. Participate, some warn, at your own peril. I'm a ...

Some eyebrows were raised recently when Vanderbilt University's Office of Religious Life sent faculty members a list of the holidays that some students might observe, and for which they might ask to ...

MAPLEWOOD, N.J. — A New Jersey elementary school canceled and reinstated its Halloween celebration this week in a debate that reflects societal ambivalence about the holiday’s religious origins. On ...