We don't know when He was born but there is a tradition of celebrating His birth on the 25th.Icthus wrote:Jesus wasn't born on December 25th.snorider wrote:As a Secularist I celebrate Christmas with family, I'm not offended if people want to pray, it's a time of joy with loved ones. To each their own.
As far as it being a "Christian" day, that obviously is not the case. Many saviors prior to Jesus were born on December 25th and of a Virgin..
http://listverse.com/10-christ-like-fig ... ate-jesus/
Son Gods:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PobDpVqny3I&
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqtFdmPWq2E
And, no, I don't believe that there is a true example of a "savior figure" born from a virgin prior to Jesus. Lists like the one you've provided have been thoroughly debunked in the past. Pagan copycat lists are, almost without exception, produced by non-scholars whose primary sources are fellow non-scholars or heavily outdated "freethinking" scholars from the nineteenth century that have been refuted by more recent scholarship.
Of course not everyone is a fan of tradition, so...
A good place to start:
http://orthocath.wordpress.com/2010/11/ ... n-origins/