• tjsauce@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I don’t understand, Christmas originated from the Christian religion, what exactly does it say about this person’s character?

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      10 months ago

      It didn’t though. Christmas was invented by the Christians to help convert Pagans of the time by saying that Christianity fits in with their celebrations. Christmas origins come from the Roman celebration of Saturnalia.

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      10 months ago

      Not exactly. Most Christian holidays are redefined existing holidays. Christmas was “oh everyone already celebrates a feast around midwinter, let’s make it a celebration of the birth of Jesus so we can still do the celebration but in a Christian way”.

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          10 months ago

          There is already some debate about what time of year the birth actually happened. Most people agree that regardless of the actual day, it probably wasn’t Dec 25 (or the equivalent if using other calendars). That’s just the one that people agreed to use.

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      10 months ago

      December 25 was the traditional date of the winter solstice in the Roman Empire,[45] where most Christians lived, and the Roman festival Dies Natalis Solis Invicti (birthday of Sol Invictus, the ‘Invincible Sun’) had been held on this date since 274 AD.[46]

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas

      Using the word retarded is similar to using other derogatory slurs deemed hate speech.