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Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It would be hard to include all of the traditions co-opted to create Christmas in a half hour kids show.
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Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It would be hard to include all of the traditions co-opted to create Christmas in a half hour kids show.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Which there are none
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Do you honestly think Jesus was born on December 25? And that Santa and all his elves were there?
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 month ago
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjxGvyPAY5A
The truth is, Xmas evolved from the Roman holiday Saturnalia…
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
Glorious username
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Dunno how the date Christmas is celebrated is relevant, or the character surrounding St Nicholas
Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Jesus was actually born in the summer time. people.howstuffworks.com/when-was-jesus-born.htm
Christmas is a pagan holiday to celebrate the winter solstice. Traditional puritans banned Christmas in the 1500. Right around the time they were burning witches
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Okay, so how about the elves? The reindeer? The holly and mistletoe? The tree?
RainBlast@startrek.website 1 month ago
Where did Christians get the decorating of a tree?
Jeremiah 10:1-5 explicitly condemns it.
markovs_gun@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You seriously misread that if you think it’s about Christmas trees in anything but maybe an abstract way. It’s about wooden idols. Who tf is chiseling their Christmas trees into shapes? I thought maybe this would be about Asherah poles or something at least kind of similar but this is a pretty obvious passage about idolatry.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 month ago
You’d make a good American Evangelical by the way you take the Bible out of context.
Christmas trees started as a German tradition where trees were decorated in September with Eucharist Hosts to represent the Tree of Life in Eden, for celebrating Creationtide. As time went on and the tradition travelled, it eventually was used for Christmas.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I’m pretty sure the idea came from Nordic pagans bringing in evergreen boughs in the winter.