RE: Kirk Cameron-Don't drink the koolaid and think Christmas had pagan origins.
November 15, 2014 at 2:07 pm
(This post was last modified: November 15, 2014 at 2:11 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
That's the way we tend to interpret it. But, and this is just some random thought on the matter. It might be more accurate to think of Bacchus as a harvest god (although a very good case can be made for Bacchus having been a revelatory god, an epiphany machine....the wine and tits being incidentals). What that harvest meant -to those people- is what Bacchus was the god of (consider, for example, that many farmers pray to jesus for good crops - and all of the bounty and excess that this entails, this does not make jesus the "god of corn" -or- the god of bounty or excess). The wine and debauchery bit makes for a good rag though. Especially (I'd say) if you're a stilted christian monk writing the "histories" of other religions.
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