Your perennial reminder that Keven Sorbo is an idiot.
Your perennial reminder that Keven Sorbo is an idiot.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10008769
Why do Christians put up saturnalia trees? 😝😝
A fun tradition is a fun tradition.
Lol it's so deeply ingrained right in front of everyone's nose. Magic Santa, magic reindeer, magic elves and that's just the stuff before propaganda like Rudolph and Frosty came around.
God forbid I get a Harry Potter book on Christmas and being magical thinking into this mess.
Saturnalia trees are probably a myth.
The first references we have to Christmas trees are in 16th century Germany. They probably didn't come directly from any pagan traditions seeing as Germany had been Christian for multiple centuries at that point.
I’ll do you one better: Why is Easter a fertility celebration? None of the accounts of Jesus’ resurrection directly tie it to fertility. These became popular as Christians became exposed to cultures that had spring fertility festivals.
The religious celebration of Christmas includes Advent wreaths, church services, and traditionalist music (Joy to the World, Silent Night, etc.) Everything else is the secular celebration.
Fair…. Then why do Christian’s celebrate “Coca-Cola”? lol
Current Santa is from Coke lol
It's what you get when you put at least half a dozen traditional festivities, customs and good old commercialisation and put them in the blender.
Both of those traditions are pagan anyway
Like most things Christian
Not Christmas trees. It's a relatively recent (~500 years) tradition from Germany.
I personally think it’s fantastic when, every Dec 25th, the world comes together to celebrate Isaac Newton’s birthday.
I go a step further and respond to "merry Christmas" with "happy Newtonmas".
when the sciencemas tree gets filled with presents by darwin claus
Except that according to the Gregorian Calendar he was born January 4th, 1643.
You’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch.
Does anyone actually celebrate Valentines day without a lover? Seems like the logic doesn't work
Why do Christians? Jesus was born in the summer.
I'm french and I have always been told that our Gaullish ancestors had festivities going on at that date already and the roman empire made sure to destroy our culture and traditions by replacing our celebrations. They also built churches on the exact same spots as our previous cult places. Like, they even built a new city (Tours) from scratch to make Amboise become irrelevant. Christmas was part of the violence inflicted to our ancestors
That's the only correct answer. Just use the existing celebration dates, and remove the old religion.
Why on earth doesn't modern Christians question the Eastern celebration, which follows the moon-calendar?
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We don't actually really know.
One idea is that Jesus's conception was said to have been in March for assorted reasons, and December is 9 months after March.
Another is that it appropriated Roman solstice celebrations.
One of the main reasons to believe that the birth date of Jesus is not reliable is because we have historical records of when there were censuses, and they tended to not to be in the winter months for fairly obvious practical reasons. There is no record of one occurring in December or anywhere near that time around the supposed date of his birth, so how could Jesus have been born on the way to a census if there wasn't one in December?
The only option is that the date of the birth is out by about 10 years (there was a census in December 10 years earlier) or the month of his birth is out by about 6 months. Which of those two options we don't know but we definitely know he wasn't and couldn't be born at the date that the bible says. The reason people go for the summer birth hypothesis is it's easier to understand how the date could have been moved six months a lot less easy to understand how people could have thought he was 10 years younger than he actually was.
That's a pretty good reason.
His question has a logic in his mind. Religious holiday, non-religious folk, what gives?
Of course the logic breaks down at the tiniest amount of scrutiny, but that would be beyond the capacity of Kevin's little head.
I get paid time off from work during christmas (or jul, as we call it here). I will celebrate anything that gives me paid time off
I agree. IMO celebrating the shell of a religious holiday without actually being religious is pathetic. I'm an atheist - in this moment I am euphoric, or maybe I'm sad because abandoning religion has cut me off from the culture of my ancestors. But at least I'm not pretending that I have something which I actually don't.
That reminds me... In the Soviet Union, loyal communists didn't celebrate religious holidays but Santa Claus, gift giving, and decorating Christmas trees (they weren't called that) were all moved over to New Year's instead. Also Santa Claus was assisted by his good-looking granddaughter.
Atheists celebrate holidays because the actual thing real people celebrate is never, and really was never, about religion.
Thats why christians were able to subsume pagan traditions, because the traditions of gathering together, eating good food, and enjoying each others company was the real reason for the season.
If the worship mattered more than the communal celebration for the sake of community, christians would never have allowed pagan traditions into the holiday.
Because Christmas is as much about Christianity as my rear end. It's a nice festivity that comes from old customs, and nobody has a problem with keeping the nicer parts of culture and customs while filtering out the crappy parts.
Between the stroke-induced brain damage and the religion-induced brain damage, Sorbo is pretty much at the point where we should wrap him, put in a bow and throw him in the nearest dumpster.
I'd miss the clever replies he attracts, though.
Because parties are fun dumbass.
I didn't need the reminder but I like it and I love the burn. What an idiot.
Oh, please show me where in the Bible we can read about anything about Christmas!
please don't embarrass Kevin Sorbo. Lucy Lawless has done it enough times.
That's rude
Some people deserve rude.