what the fuck is wrong with you? Wrote:
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> Heathen holidays are dead Wrote:
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> > I'm still not Meade. Let us know when there's
> a
> > Yuletime holiday celebrated somewhere. On
> > December 25th, we'll all be home enjoying
> giving
> > and a holiday feast on a federal holiday known
> as
> > "Christmas", not "Yuletime".
> >
> > I don't know when Jesus was born. But we
> > celebrate it on Dec. 25th. If you don't like
> it,
> > then go celebrate the failed Kawanza scam. The
> > 99.999999999999999% of the rest of us will be
> > celebrating Christmas.
>
>
> No one knows when Christ was born. The reason they
> chose the date they did to celebrate was that
> there were already major celebrations on that time
> for the winter solstice. Much easier to piggyback
> and coopt an existing tradition than start a new
> one. Furthermore, many of our Christmas traditions
> date from those pre-Christian celebrations. Some
> Christians do not celebrate Christmas due to the
> pagan origins of these traditions. Meade is too
> idiotic to see this. Since you are not Meade, I'm
> sure you have more common sense than him.
Wrong, it was actually Pagans that adopted the Christian time of celebration. Look up the truth.
https://ibbarsoum.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/how-the-pagans-stole-christmas/