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TopHatter;
You're right. Christmas, Easter, and other pagan holidays were adopted by Constantine at the Council of Nicaea. Christmas was the date emperor Aurelian used to dedicate the temple of the sun god, whom he claimed to be descended from. Easter was a pagan festival, and the way we celebrate today was the way pagan Romans used it minus the religious significance.
Christianity was severely corrupted by Constantine, and that's where we get Catholicism.
But your statement denying the deity of Christ is heretical, and obviously ignorant. Tell me, have you read the Bible, or was that statement just a talking point?
Here is a verse that proves the deity of Christ:
"Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he had not only broken that sabbath, but said also that God was His Father, making himself equal with God"-John 5:18
Verse 23 of the same chapter:
"That all men should honour the Son, even as they honor the Father. He that honoreth not the Son honoreth not the Father."
And your reference that the term "Jesus Christ" was coined by the council of Nicaea:
"Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ." -Matthew 16:20
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