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minus-squareSeppo@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down7·1 day agoChristmas isn’t Christan though. It’s a bunch of older celebrations that the cult put their own label on. Those sick fucks love retroactively shoving their god into places he does not belong, like in Arthurian legend for example.
minus-squarethevoidzero@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down1·1 day agoI’m not debating the origin. If you’re buying a bunch of gifts, wrapping it in, putting them under a tree, you’re technically celebrating Christmas. If you have some other celebrations or gatherings on the same day, then yeah it’s not Christmas
minus-squareprettybunnys@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down2·1 day agoOk. But in the context of what is being discussed is what you’re saying helpful or did you just want to show the class how smart you are?
minus-squareSeppo@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down3·1 day agoI just think it’s important to not let insane cultists rewrite history. These are dangerous and awful people who need deprogramming.
minus-square[object Object]@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·16 hours agoSo, to be clear, you celebrate the winter solstice and the birthday of Sol Invictus?
minus-squareprettybunnys@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agoWhich other religions currently practice Christmas? Better yet which culture isn’t borrowing heavily from the ones who came before them? Which religions great flood was the real one, which version of saturnalia or Yule is the right one?
Christmas isn’t Christan though. It’s a bunch of older celebrations that the cult put their own label on. Those sick fucks love retroactively shoving their god into places he does not belong, like in Arthurian legend for example.
I’m not debating the origin. If you’re buying a bunch of gifts, wrapping it in, putting them under a tree, you’re technically celebrating Christmas.
If you have some other celebrations or gatherings on the same day, then yeah it’s not Christmas
Ok. But in the context of what is being discussed is what you’re saying helpful or did you just want to show the class how smart you are?
I just think it’s important to not let insane cultists rewrite history. These are dangerous and awful people who need deprogramming.
So, to be clear, you celebrate the winter solstice and the birthday of Sol Invictus?
Which other religions currently practice Christmas?
Better yet which culture isn’t borrowing heavily from the ones who came before them?
Which religions great flood was the real one, which version of saturnalia or Yule is the right one?