Originally posted by ramanth
As far as I know, Jesus wasn't born in Dec.
I thought I had heard this too, but I didn't want to bring it up since I know little about it.

The links I posted actually got the old stories a bit wring form the original holiday....the Sun God, the Holly King, the Horned God, whatever you call him by, goes through an annual cycle of death and rebirth according to my faith, and the Yule celebration was a celebration of his emminent rebirth and th elonger brighter days that accompanied it. I seriously doubt the old-time pagans actually thought that if the didn't celebrate the sun would be gone for good. :P