Let's steal christmas back from the Christians
What does christmas have to do with Christ, anyway?
Some Christian marketing guy in the fourth century C.E. came up with the idea of piggy backing a new Christian holiday on top of a bunch of pagan holidays, kind of like how Subway opens a location right next to every existing Mr. Sub.
I am sure there is a marketing term for this strategy. The point is, even back then the Christians had it all figured out.
Consulting Wikipedia, the most trustworthy information source IN THE UNIVERSE, we see that christmas was actually orignally a bunch of pagan celebrations from many cultures, all centred around the shortest day of the year, the winter solstice.
Take yuletide, for example. The Christians didn't have any winter celebrations til their big one at Easter (at least it used to be the big one), so they stole it.
Yuletide sounds like a good idea to me, and the twelve wild days of yuletide are not ripping off Adam Sandler, he is ripping off the pagans with his "12 crazy days" or whatever the blazes that movie was called.
2 comments:
Amen dude/dudette. Jingle Bells and Frosty the Snowman are both great Yuletide chunes.
Great article on a way to take Christ out of Christmans...stick it to em!
Great info. I ended up surfing Wiki for hour looking up pagan info.
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