>The truth is, Christmas evolved from the Roman holiday Saturnalia, a winter festival where men gave gifts to each other. They also would get drunk, have sex with each other and beat their wives. People would act so crazy on Christmas, the holiday was outlawed by the Protestant church until the 1800s. As a matter of fact, the United States Congress- *drowned out by adults from Peanuts quacking*What did the US Congress have to do with Christmas?
>>151878700They try to push the "Easter is pagan" thing too, don't they? They don't touch Valentine's or St. Patrick's though.
>>151878700who are you quoting
>>151878700They made it a federal holidayhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_in_the_American_Civil_War
>>151878731Christianity is literally a remix of zoroastrianism and judaism with sone roman and celtic festivities sprinkled on top, it's not something super special or original in the grand scheme of things.
>>151878797Sure man
>>151878700He was probably going to day Congress didn't officially call recess for Christmas until the late 1800s after the "ancient traditions" that we think of started getting popular. Christmas trees didnt become a thing outside of niche eastern European interest until the mid 1800s, largely due to them becoming popular with the British royal family
>>151878731Nobody gives a shit about those, too niche in comparison Considering Ireland has Catholic saints that were literally just celtic gods, it wouldn't be far fetched there desu
>>151878817>eastern EuropeanCentral and western, eastern europeans got the christmas tree in the late 19th century
>>151878731Is Valentine’s Day meant to be a religious holiday? Seems like the opposite
>>151878797>Christianity is literally a remix of zoroastrianismHi r/atheism.Ever heard of the book of judges?
>>151879064You mean the thing that was written in the sixth century BC, likely after Zoroastrianism started?
>>151879101They like to believe their religion exists outside historical context and human culture and wasn't derived from millennia of beliefs that preceded it.
>You just, "Blah, blah, gay sex. Blah, blah, Congress.">You know, you gotta be interesting.>You're gonna talk me to death. Talk, talk, talk.
>>151879123Grandpa was so right for this.
>>151879108If you think that disproves the point you really are retarded. I didn't bring up the book of judges because it predated ghe pantheon. I brought it up because for every point the zoroastrianism theory brings up as evidence of a shared origin the book of judges literally documents as cultural intergration with the semitic tribes and why that was seen as evil.
>>151878989Saint Valentine was a Christian priest in Ancient Rome who would secretly perform wedding ceremonies for soldiers going to war or something like that.
>>151878700>They also would get drunk, have sex with each other and beat their wives.No Huey, Saturnalia had role swapping. If anything the wives beat their husbands.
>>151879064>Hi r/atheism.It's hard to take any of your arguments seriously
>>151878700Stop writing in the subject line, retard. This isn't fucking reddit.
>>151879156It is when one the first things that come up when you look up the zoroastrianism origin theory is a page fron r/atheism. I don't give the benefit of the doubt to fags here when it comes to sources of infomation like that.
>>151878989It's based on a saintAnd we only have Santa Claus on Christmas because the protestants tried to get rid of saints and their days, so Saint Nicholas' Day just merged with Christmas
>>151879161>It is when one the first things that come up when you look up the zoroastrianism origin theory is a page fron r/atheism.So are a lot of things retard, are you the type of guy to bitch at people with certain filenames they got off google?But that fucking theory is older than even reddit's existence, Huey's rant was common back then because he's the type of guy to have watched Zeitgeist unironically. You'll see this shit on facebook posted by boomers. You just needed a fast cheap way to discredit and went with the laziest one possible
>>151879180>So are a lot of things retard, are you the type of guy to bitch at people with certain filenames they got off googleAs I said, for things like this I don't give the benefit of the doubt.>But that fucking theory is older than even reddit's existenceOh so it can't be made popular as a trendy argument to be parroted by retards? Great point anon.>You just needed a fast cheap way to discredit and went with the laziest one possibleAs aposed to >>151879156?
>>151879191>opposed to*
>Brings up Flintstones in the thread name.>No Flintstones posts.Lets fix this.
>>151879191>random laughing reaction image to show how not mad you areagain hard to take you seriously >Oh so it can't be made popular as a trendy argument to be parroted by retards? Great point anon.It was already popular before, you overestimate reddit's influence because you thought "fedora" was the greatest comeback of all time>As aposed toOpposed. And yes, in response to a shitty point, yeah
>>151878700>People would act so crazy on Christmas, the holiday was outlawed by the Protestant church until the 1800s.Which one? There's hundreds of Protestant sects.
>>151879311The non-denominational one.
>>151878989I think it is that Valentine's Day was brought back into the mainstream for such transparent reasons.Even women don't like it at this point because they realized how a lot of it is guy's acting romantic predominantly because of the pressure of not wanting to be accused of screwing the day up, which kinda nullifies the romance itself
>>151879311That never happened.
>>151878700Wrong.https://historyforatheists.com/2016/12/the-great-myths-2-christmas-mithras-and-paganism/
>>151879575Oops, sorry, wrong link.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIHdPkaCKbA
>>151879137Hot
There are no Christians in USA anyway.
>>151879101Because everyone complaining about it is a ugly jew like the jannie who’s deleting my Will Stancil Show threads on sight and leaving up the loli thread where people are arguing sex with children is actually fine and we’re all being lied to, the alternative is kike world and I want to burn kike world to the fucking ground. My instincts are that Christianity will protect us as it used to, but as it is failing I see now the benefits of National Socialism instead. I pray for TKD, and that we will rout the jew from every corner of life and the world. Happy? Is this the answer you wanted? Huh? You fucking BITCH. You RAT FINK FUCK, I HATE JEWS! I HATE ARGUING WITH FUCKING JEWS I WANT JEWS DEAD NOW! RIGHT NOW! ALL JEWS HEADS EXPLODE NOW! NO MORE ARGUING FOR KID FUCKING AND SEX PARTIES INSTEAD OF JESUS JUST TOTAL KIKE DEATH RIGHT NOW RIGHT NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW!!! FUCK! AND I WANT SEX WITH MARCELINE TOO! THE JEWS TOOK THAT FROM ME TOO AND MADE HER A NIGGER MARCELINE WAS A SEXY FLOATING ASIAN WOMAN TO ME AND JEWS MADE HER A NIGGERFAGGOT! DIE JEWS, MERRY CHRIST MASS, JEWS! TOtal KIKE DEATH AND WAIFUS FOR ME JEWS ALL JEws DIE NOW NOW NOW!
>>151878700>Then in that case I guess you wouldn't want a present there, eh? >Merry freakin' Thursday, kiddo.
>>151878700I hate being the schizo here but I think it all began with this pic.
>>151880742Yes, they are.
>>151880923This is just made up drivel
>>151880923Basically all major religious holidays are just recycling older ones
A faggot has made a /pol/bait thread upon the comics and cartoons board, and other faggots are giving him (You)s. The Janitorator will permit the thread to hit the bump limit.
>>151879180The real reason to discredit what Huey is saying is that he's literally just repeating Protestant propaganda, likely without realizing it.
>>151878700Why do atheist always think they're so clever for pointing out Christian holidays started as something else?
>>151879354Yeah, I feel like "Christmas was outlawed until recently" would definitely come up if it was true. Aaron Mcgruder just made some shit up to sound smart.
>>151878700Is there anything more insufferable than an atheist hotep? I'm glad the show repeatedly took the piss out of Huey, he absolutely deserved it.
My response is, so what? I like holidays. And there are a bunch of ways to interact them, through their pagan origins, Christian interpretation, modern ethos. Its just fun and only real OGs decorate for aspects of all 3. I've really been into Imbolc/Candlemas/Groundhog's Day the past few years. And it really exemplifies the pagan>Christian>secular route of modern culture as well
>>151883070I mean, The Boondocks is literally /pol/ in cartoon form.
>>151883070>>151884308He made a Flintstones threat that /pol/ hijacked, the thread's name even has "GRAND DAD" in it.
>>151878700Blah blah gay sex blah blah politics
>>151878700Every reddit atheist retard says this around the same time every year, but it's not true. If anything, the pagans changed the date if their festivals to co-opt Christmas.https://www.patheos.com/blogs/davearmstrong/2021/12/christmas-dec-25th-not-derived-from-saturnalia.htmlhttps://blogs.ancientfaith.com/asd/2018/12/05/no-christmas-is-not-pagan-just-stop/
