Here’s a quick rebuttal to the know-it-alls, fake “Hebrew roots” “holier than thou” types who think they can judge Christians for being born where there’s a calendar. When actually most of it is in Hebrew practices afterall.
The Hebrew calendar also has names of Pagan gods, and that doesn’t mean for example, that the Biblical name of the Hebrew Month Tammuz which lands normally in July is now some “evil practice” created by Christians. (NOT anywhere near the Lenten the months when the church celebrates Passover at Spring / Lent around in Biblical solemn remembrance of the crucifixion of Christ, when He became our Passover Lamb, when Yahshua Himself said would be the time when His flock would have fasting. Yes Christ emulating the Biblical 40 day fasts, which Christ commanded and said you all would do such fasting after He is taken away, and do more fasting than just that 1.
Also BTW Christians didn’t invent January. It was placed on the calendar on 713 BC, and by then they probably didn’t know it was originally honoring anything pagan.
So those were your top ones debunked, the rest are Biblical too, Christmas was exactly 9 months before the September 25th tradition of His birth on tabernacles, so “He DID come into the world” that day, and fulfill what is evident in Creation and Nature which TEACH THE PAGANS TO LEARN HIS LAWS AND GOSPEL, and “all His works praise Him” especially these amazing days where Creation is doing the climax things of seasons, which all tell of His plan of salvation (in the Zodiac too, all Hebrews and theologians agree) which it says we are to remember.
Also there are tons of Biblical Hebrew celebrations commanded in Scripture to celebrate Fertility! I covered this in a few articles last year. to celebrate increase, and to celebrate in a much grander scale than these itty bitty days which Scripture says if they esteem a day or not, they esteem unto YHWH, all His works praises Him. Pharisees tried super hard but would never go this low... (they only tried to add more and more remembrances, as many as possible, and mocked Christ for not doing enough remembrances as they do, but He named to the affirmative that once He’s gone they will do a lot more remembrances, they just were too busy celebrating while the husbandman is with them.
More on this: It also will read the articles out loud if you press play BTW:
Pascha, Not Paganism: Why Easter Is Not Pagan
https://celticorthodoxy.com/2026/03/easter-not-pagan-pascha-answer/
The Biblical Light Has Come: Why December 25 Belongs to Christ — Even If He Was Born at Tabernacles
https://celticorthodoxy.com/2025/12/dec-25th-birth-or-conception/
Saint John’s Day and the Sacred Rhythms of Light, Fire, and Harvest
https://celticorthodoxy.com/2025/06/st-johns-day-summer-solstice-celtic/
Yours in Christ
Rev Dr Stephen MK Brunswick
St Andrew’s OCC
https://St-AndrewsOCC.org
