On this day, 25 December 336 CE, the first recorded celebration on this date of the birth of Jesus Christ, a Jewish refugee and radical born in what is now Palestine, took place.
The bible makes no mention of Jesus’s birth date, but Christians in Egypt chose to celebrate it on 6 January. However the Western church later adopted the date of 25 December – winter solstice in the Julian calendar – which some scholars believe was in order to assimilate “heathen” celebrations of the sun on that day.
While most Christian institutions today espouse conservative views, Jesus’s early followers in the Middle East practised an informal type of communism.
Learn more about them in this great short history: https://libcom.org/history/early-christian-communists https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1303246883193792/?type=3