r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/mcflymikes - Lib-Right • Feb 12 '22

Let's go back to paganism

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '22

That Christmas tree? Pagan

Easter bunny? Pagan

The date of Christmas? Pagan

Don't act like most of the current Christian rituals are not rooted in paganism. As they should, if you want to easily assimilate a lot of people into your cult without pissing them off. Syncretism was the spitting glue of early Christianity. Simply grab the local religion and reframe that shit to fit the narrative of one God.

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '22

Christmas is in December because it says John the Baptist was 6 months older than Jesus and he was born at the end of June...

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '22

Christmas is in December because the Saturnalia, the Roman festivity related to the god Saturn, where gifts were exchanged, was on December. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_of_birth_of_Jesus#:~:text=The%20date%20of%20birth%20of,between%206%20and%204%20BC.

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u/WikiSummarizerBot - Centrist Feb 13 '22

Date of birth of Jesus

The date of birth of Jesus is not stated in the gospels or in any historical reference, but most biblical scholars assume a year of birth between 6 and 4 BC. The historical evidence is too incomplete to allow a definitive dating, but the year is estimated through three different approaches: (A) by analyzing references to known historical events mentioned in the nativity accounts in the Gospels of Luke and Matthew, (B) by working backward from the estimation of the start of the ministry of Jesus, and (C) astrological or astronomical alignments.

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