To Christians, it very much is still a religious holiday and should be considered as such. As someone who thinks we should still do away with such holidays.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Christmas at this point isn’t even a religious holiday.
Do people worship Santa Claus? I mean, they do sort of worship the God Consumerism, to be fair.
The baby Jesus ain’t got shit to do with the modern version of this holiday.
Just ask the fucking Saturnalia trees we break out every year. The holiday has absolutely loads of pagan traditions present in it because when Constantine shouted out “Hey all you Romans, all of you are Christian now!” didn’t actually work very well. So they start smashing existing traditions onto the “new” tradition. So the Romans just took Saturnalia and slapped Christmas on it and was like “this totally tracks!” to get people to accept Christianity as the new religion of the Empire.
I mean, holy fuck, middle eastern winters are far too cold for a baby in a manger. Kid would have frozen the fuck to death.
Whole thing is a joke anyway from fucks who don’t know shit about history because the only book they bothered to ever try to read (and they only really read what their preacher told em) was the Bible.
If they read (and believed) other books, they would and should be embarrassed.
BassaForte@lemmy.world 1 year ago
pwnicholson@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Most of the people you’re thinking about as a problem haven’t read the Bible either. They’d think the stuff Jesus said was commie, bleeding-heart, socialist stuff (because it is)