RE: Curious question of curiosity.
November 14, 2015 at 4:21 pm
(This post was last modified: November 14, 2015 at 4:22 pm by Lek.)
(November 14, 2015 at 3:54 pm)Rhythm Wrote: No...., I'm not, but don't take my word for it, google is your friend. Yes, christmas is a way of christianizing the winter solstice - as I said. No, they aren't honoring any pagan roots - as I said. I'm not sure why you think you're disagreeing with me. Is it the motive of the early church that bothers you, why they christianized the solstice? Tough titties, take it up with them.From your post:
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'The idea behind reappropriating pagan holidays was to reduce the amount of evil juju in the air, to make the days holy by celebrating them, and thusly reduce whatever fraction of "unholy" this-and-that's might be flitting around - in order for the society to garner favor from god and avoid his righteous punishment on the collective. That's what christmas is about, warding off evil. Christmas has nothing to do with christ, never did, still doesn't. Ironically, christmas as it stands today (and then) has nothing to do with paganism either. It's just an example of the larger narrative of superstitions which have outlived our memories regarding their establishment.'
This is what I disagree with you about.
