Have you noticed that Christmas movies never mentions CHRIST anymore. It's all about a season of feelings without mentioning why it's called CHRISTmas.
If I might oversimplify history for a moment: Christ was artificially inserted into the Roman winter festival of Saturnalia when the empire converted, and Saturnalia in its own time stole the northern European winter festival of Yule.
I don't like the new commerce and alcohol festival at all, and I think it's nonsense to have Christ's Mass without Christ - but I'm not yet a Christian, and Christmas is not actually the original festival.
This probably means it's even more important to put Christ back in the festival, before time does its work and we lose another part of what makes us who we are.
I agree that most "Christian" holidays began when the Catholics decided marketing to the pagans was a good idea and simply "Christianized" the Pagan celebrations.
I think that were wrong to start with, but it was still better Christianized than Paganized.
I don't think that was wrong at all. I think it was a good way to blend two cultures together. For centuries, Romans persecuted Christians on and off and then the Romans ended up having all the Roman holidays Christianized and the Catholics (the only Christian Church at the time) ended up calling themselves Roman Catholic. btw, the Christmas we have now is far more due to the German Christmas holiday than Saturnalia. Religion always influences culture and those who seek to celebrate "pure religion holidays" all the time, end up not having much to transmit to the next generation because it's not family focused and it's not fun and it doesn't create memories and strengthen social bonds. Every year, Christians get this big guilt trip from both atheists/agnostics who want anything about Christmas removed from society altogether and a bunch of "pure, unadulterated Christians" who only want everything to be about Jesus and are really no fun. Those two groups have a lot more in common than what divides them because they're mostly about crapping on other peoples' happiness and joy.
The pagan celebrations weren't rebranded. To put it simply, they were transformed from blood-sacrifice sex rituals that worshipped the worst aspects of humanity to rituals of hope and salvation.
There was a lot more going on in the conversion, from an occult standpoint, than most people realize.
If you go deeper, you'll find that Saturnalia is a pagan festival that worshipped the astrological manifestation of Satan. The pagans didn't realize that of course.
Christmas was not an insertion or a co-opting of that festival. It was a transformation of one of the darkest celebrations into one of the most joyous ones.
This parallels Jesus' sacrifice transforming the cross from a symbol of punishment and terror to one of hope and salvation.
Basically, mankind has been enslaved by occult shit for millenia, and Christ offered the first and only way out. That's why the entire world wants to destroy His presence on Earth.
Next is Christmas and to take baby Jesus out of are life
Have you noticed that Christmas movies never mentions CHRIST anymore. It's all about a season of feelings without mentioning why it's called CHRISTmas.
These days that word isn't even used that much. The common word is just "the holidays." Don't want any Muslims to feel left out.
Give APPLE a couple of years and Charlie will be a multiracial transexual and Linus will be Hitler.
If I might oversimplify history for a moment: Christ was artificially inserted into the Roman winter festival of Saturnalia when the empire converted, and Saturnalia in its own time stole the northern European winter festival of Yule.
I don't like the new commerce and alcohol festival at all, and I think it's nonsense to have Christ's Mass without Christ - but I'm not yet a Christian, and Christmas is not actually the original festival.
This probably means it's even more important to put Christ back in the festival, before time does its work and we lose another part of what makes us who we are.
I agree that most "Christian" holidays began when the Catholics decided marketing to the pagans was a good idea and simply "Christianized" the Pagan celebrations.
I think that were wrong to start with, but it was still better Christianized than Paganized.
I don't think that was wrong at all. I think it was a good way to blend two cultures together. For centuries, Romans persecuted Christians on and off and then the Romans ended up having all the Roman holidays Christianized and the Catholics (the only Christian Church at the time) ended up calling themselves Roman Catholic. btw, the Christmas we have now is far more due to the German Christmas holiday than Saturnalia. Religion always influences culture and those who seek to celebrate "pure religion holidays" all the time, end up not having much to transmit to the next generation because it's not family focused and it's not fun and it doesn't create memories and strengthen social bonds. Every year, Christians get this big guilt trip from both atheists/agnostics who want anything about Christmas removed from society altogether and a bunch of "pure, unadulterated Christians" who only want everything to be about Jesus and are really no fun. Those two groups have a lot more in common than what divides them because they're mostly about crapping on other peoples' happiness and joy.
The pagan celebrations weren't rebranded. To put it simply, they were transformed from blood-sacrifice sex rituals that worshipped the worst aspects of humanity to rituals of hope and salvation.
There was a lot more going on in the conversion, from an occult standpoint, than most people realize.
If you go deeper, you'll find that Saturnalia is a pagan festival that worshipped the astrological manifestation of Satan. The pagans didn't realize that of course.
Christmas was not an insertion or a co-opting of that festival. It was a transformation of one of the darkest celebrations into one of the most joyous ones.
This parallels Jesus' sacrifice transforming the cross from a symbol of punishment and terror to one of hope and salvation.
Basically, mankind has been enslaved by occult shit for millenia, and Christ offered the first and only way out. That's why the entire world wants to destroy His presence on Earth.
If I see one more goddamn inflatable Mickey Mouse Santa Clause yard decoration I'm going to do nothing but be mildly annoyed.
Yes I have all of them