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So have yourself a Merry Christmas, a Happy Hanukkah, kwazy Kwanzaa, a tip-top Tet, or a solemn & dignified Ramadan.
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>>78400719
Thanks but it will always bother me Christmas and Ramadan don't have alliterations.
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Aren't Christmas and Jewish Christmas the only holidays that happen in GENERIC-DECEMBER-FESTIVE-SEASON ?
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>>78400719
Thanks, anon. You have a merry Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa/Tet/Ramadan yourself.
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>>78401015

Yes, but we gotta pretend like there are others because reason.
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>>78400719
Wait what. Ramadan wasn't in winter.

-clueless non-muslim.
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>>78400719
>>78401015
Forgot one, guess it's not too late to have an Airing of Grievances
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>>78401015
>>78401028
And really, Hanukkah isn't even a very important Jewish holiday. Christians just assumed it was because it happens near the same time as Christmas.
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>>78401489
fucking white people
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>>78400719
>No Saturnalia/Feast of Sol Invictus


Go back to /pol/
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Serenity when?
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>>78401498
What's the problem?
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>>78401503
Fucking this! Seriously, when is the thread?
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>>78401467
I know our prophet was born 22nd of december, so happy that?
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>>78401503
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEMHtoWGLW0
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>>78401503
>not invoking Festivus
>>78401472
That's another Grievance to add
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>>78401503
SERENITY NOW
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>>78401593
Seriously, when does it start?
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>>78400719
>Hanukkah
Minor holiday for Jews, not a Christmas equivalent

>Kwanza
Made-up nonsense that nobody celebrates

>Tet
What

>Ramadan
At a different time every year, usually Summer
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>>78401489
It kind of retroactively became important becasue it became the vogue to essentially treat it like 8 days of Christmas among jewish-ish families.
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>Not including Saturnalia or Winter Solstice
Neo-Paganism is serious guys.
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Sure feels like Christmas Eve at SEVENTY TWO FUCKING DEGREES

WHY, MOTHER NATURE? WHY?
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>>78400719
>No Winter Solstice
>No Saturnalia
>Tsk Tsk
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>>78401489
>Christians just assumed it was because it happens near the same time as Christmas.

It was pushed by American Jews as a counter-balance to Christmas. It's a really unimportant holiday outside of the United States.
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>>78402685
Kwanzaa serves literally no purpose either.
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>>78402725
Kwanzaa is fucking dumb. It was invented to be black people christmas so black people in america could celebrate the African heritage of their ancestors, for osme damn reason they decided to make it feature corn a lot (which doesn't grow in Africa) as well as have it conducted in Swahili, a language found on the opposite side of Africa to the ancestors of African Americans.

It would be like celebrating white culture by making everyone eat chinese food and speak finnish
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>>78402827
>Celebrate white culture by making everyone eat chinese food

That's not so bad alot of chinese dishes are actually inspired by White people...

>Speak Finnish

My god that's horrible!
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>>78401739
Kwanza is Christmas for black people
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>>78401638
SERENITY NOW
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>>78402877
AMERICAN Black people.

Most Africans I met just celebrate Christmas.
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>>78402877
>black people in holiday special
>they celebrate Kwanza
Seriously, no one celebrates that nonsense.
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>>78402877
Kwanza is a fake bullshit holiday that nobody actually cares about.
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What the fuck is Tet?
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>>78402902
I celebrate it ironically, and by that I mean I just give my one jewish friend a Kwanza present because I know when Kwanza starts but I can't be assed to remember when Hanukkah starts.
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>>78402916
Aren't they all fake bullshit holidays, technically? Granted, even when you mean relative to the others Kwanza still is pretty fucked.
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>>78402937
Buddhist New Year I think

If you know anything about the Vietnam war you should know about Tet
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>>78402961
Christmas and Hannukah are millenia old traditions.

Kwanza was made up in what, the seventies?
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>>78402992
Christmas and Hanukkah are both almost unrecognisable to their original forms. Christmas itself is just an appropriated pagan festival (like most Christian holidays)
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>>78400719
More like solemn & dignified Aidilfitri
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>>78402899
>>78402902
>>78402916
They were kings and shiet
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>>78401489

Hey, don't look at us if your holiday got twisted around for calendar convenience. Jesus wasn't even born close to December 25. Christians just had to shift the date to coincide with pagan winter solstice festivals.
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>>78402992
Christmas itself is a holiday manufactured by the Catholic church to convert pagans. Jesus was born in the spring or summer, there's no reason to recognize it in winter.
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>>78402899
Have you ever met a black person that celebrates Kwanzaa or read any posters appeal about celebrating it? No, cause it was invented by dumb white/Jew media trying to profit off blacks
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As a black guy i don't celebrate kwanza, but i do reconginze it. But seriously i have never seen someone celebrate kwanza in my life
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>>78403048
They converted the hell outta those pagans though.
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>>78402899
I'm American and all American black people I've known celebrated Christmas.
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>>78401472
Festivus was yesterday.
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>>78403063
Its not an either or thing though. Its just that no one has enough dashikis.
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Why is Hanukkah always bundled with Christmas? Doesn't Hanukkah happen weeks before Christmas?
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>>78403053
>No, cause it was invented by dumb white/Jew media trying to profit off blacks
No man it was quite the opposite, it was invented by an African culture professor who was trying to push this shit on blacks as part of a black panther thing.
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>>78403053

Read a poster about celebrating it in the Harlem subway once. Which is entirely predictable and possibly the only place you'd expect the poster to be.
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>>78403011
>pagan festival

I bet you learned that in middle school.

Christmas is scheduled on the outdated idea that, from conception to crucifixion, Christ's life lasted a perfect number of years. They knew Christ was crucified in the Spring, and so his birth is celebrated in December.

The Solstice theory is a fedora meme.
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>>78403048
>Jesus was born in the spring or summer, there's no reason to recognize it in winter.
You know, we really should start celebrating something in the summer. We don't need to get rid of Christmas, but summer is really lacking in big "eat a lot of food with family you can't stand" holidays.
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>>78403062
Kinda, it's weird because the converts to Catholicism still do all sorts of weird practices following old pagan superstitions. However the Catholic church doesn't care if there are people still running around practicing cultural magics and still believing in local spirits, as long as they donate to the bishop's lenten appeal they're good.
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>>78403128
If you're American, there's the 4th of July/Independence Day as well as Memorial Day.
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>>78403138
Only food there is some regular grilling like we do every other weekend in summer, not a big meal that you have leftovers of for a week.
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So, Orthodox Christians don't celebrate Christmas?
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>>78403083
It's part of a corporately-defined "season" that takes the entire time from Thanksgiving until New Years Day and hangs us by our ankles until all our money falls out.
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>>78403158
Thanksgiving and Christmas are plenty. I'll be way past my breaking point if I have to see my family more than I already do.
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>>78403158
You what? Big parties on July 4 and Memorial Day have always been a thing.
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>>78403123
>The Solstice theory is a fedora meme.
It's not completely, certain traditions like the Christmas Tree are leftovers from pagan festivals.
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>>78403123
What exactly is "a perfect number of years?"
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>>78403188
An exact number, I should have said. Twelve-month cycles.
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>>78403188
I've always heard that Jesus died at 33.
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>>78401467

Islamic holidays use a lunar calendar which has different months and a shorter year, so it's out of synch with the solar calendar. As such, Ramadan moves around the solar year.

Same deal with Jewish holidays.
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>>78403312
Pagans sure do have weird traditions!
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>>78403340
Easter does the same thing, but using the liturgical calendar.
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>>78401739
>what is tet
Vietnamese new year.
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>>78403123

Anon, if solstices were not important to ancient peoples, why would so many, across the globe, build structures such as Stonehenge and Chaco Canyon? Also, it's important to remember that due to the procession of Earth's axis, the solstices change compared to our dating system.
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My girlfriends' family are Chinese immigrants and they celebrate New Years as the big holiday of the season. Not Chinese New Year, but they've adapted the traditions to the Western New Year.
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>>78402880
#hashtag watch #seinfeld on #hulu
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>>78400719
Fuck you it's JUST merry Christmas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD26Jo-GBJE
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>>78403419
I am denying that Christmas' date was planned to coincide with the Winter Solstice.

I am not denying that solstices were not important in ancient religions. I do not even deny that solstices hold importance to religions today! That is plain empirical fact.
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>>78403494
happy Christmas amerifat
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>>78400719
What the fuck is Tet
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>>78402827

You have to understand the Pan African movement, which didn't just focus on west Africa, but the whole continent.

Swahili is the closest thing to a "common language" the movement has decided on considerING the multitude of languages spoken throughout sub-Saharan Africa.

And corn- while not native- was a very important staple crop after it's introduction.

The thing about Kwanzaa is that it's still sort of recent. Give it some time and people will think it's an actual tradition like all the stuff we take for granted during Christmas- a lot of which has been introduced in the past century or so by commercial interests and Evangelical Christian interest groups.
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>>78403264
The Bible says "about 30", but he has to be at least 32 to fit historical data, and people probably settle on 33 because le ebin trinity meme.
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>>78402899

Very few American black people celebrate it or even really know what it is. It hasn't had much traction.
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>>78403597
Vietnamese New Year. The only reason most Americans would have even heard of it is because of the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War.
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>>78403636
>le ebin trinity meme
Hey that meme converted lots of Irish.
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>>78400719
>Ramadan

R-ramadan is in the summer OP...
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>>78403750

In 1998 it was in December.
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>>78403023
>>78403023
It's funny, because growing up always just called it Eid. Then I figure out that was the actual name was Eid Al-Fitr.

Then I realized that it was eerily close to Adolf Hitler. Coincidence? Prophecy? Who knows?
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>>78400719
And now, a word from my god, our sponsor...
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>>78402051
You don't even imagine how we are in the other side of the belt where it's summer here. Look up how is the weather now in my city: Los Andes, Chile.
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>>78402051
We did this to ourselves, family.
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Kwanza is for black people who think Christmas is too white.
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>>78403789
Lel
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>>78401489
Do they even have other holidays?
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>>78403636
>le ebin trinity meme.
This makes me wonder what people in biblical times memes were like. I wonder if they had a baneposting equivalent.
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>>78404540
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>it's the Ramadan episode
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>>78403160
Yes, they do.

Source: am from Orthodox Christian country
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>>78404540
Not really biblical, but the mid evil equivalent of bane posting was knights fighting giant snails.
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>>78404616
Do you think that when people first heard the story of David vs Goliath they called bullshit on it? As in :
>"No fucking way that little jew could beat Goliath with only one stone. This is fucking character wankery of the worst kind."
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>>78404809
Maybe he had hemophilia.
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Happy Christmahanukwanzakah, /co/!
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>>78400719
>Happy Hanukkah
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>>78404809
>On the internet, nobody knows you're King Saul
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Which Arthur character celebrated Kwanzaa again?
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>>78402877
Christmas is Christmas for black people.

Kwanzaa was started by a communist in the 60's.
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>>78404291
>92°
That's just normal summer weather.
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>>78405168
Mordred.
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>>78404537
There's a ton in October. Also, did you forget Prince of Egypt was about the origin of a jewish holiday?
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>>78401467
It was around 2005 and will be again around 2020 approx. It was in June this year, and goes 10 days back each year.
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>>78401489
more like Jews made it a big deal so they could make their kids feel better about being left out on Christians, and guilting Christians to stop celebrating Christmas in public areas
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>>78403123
Christmas is scheduled by being nine months before the feast of the Annunciation on March 25th.

http://taylormarshall.com/2012/12/yes-christ-was-really-born-on-december.html
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>>78405279
This. The Jews are also the reason Christmas has become so secularized in the last few decades.
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>>78405279

Then again, Christmas didn't used to be so big and played second fiddle to Easter before US businesses got their hands on it.
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>>78405279
>mfw live in the UK
>mfw people only ever say 'Merry Christmas'
>mfw 'muricans say our traditions are fucked when they have to say 'Happy Holidays'

Happy Holidays goyim~
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Thanks from the Muslims browsing /co/ (even if ramadan was in June this year you still have half a year to wish good karma to your fellow muslims). And happy Yule/Jul to all the adepts of the ancient rites!
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>>78405323
Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas aren't even a big deal.

The people who make a big deal out of it are the hugest idiots though.
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>>78405323
>implying
M8 I live in clapistan but I only say Joyeux Noel or Feliz Navidad, people don't give me shit about it.
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>>78405288
>Listening to self publicizing televangelists who will likely say anything people want to hear to make a quick buck.
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>>78405395
>Joyeux Noel
>Feliz Navidad
The fuck kinda commie shit is that? Get the hell out of my country.
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Merry Christmas
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>>78405279
>>78405304
>>78405323

>Last year the Washington Post’s lead editorial on Christmas Day, an editorial entitled simply “Christmas” in print, but “Christmas not what it used to be, but becoming better” on-line, opined that Irving Berlin’s song “White Christmas” is “the most essential contribution of all to the creation of the 20th-century American Christmas,” which is “a Christmas that was secular, sentimental, commercial and, to a large extent, more inclusive than the religious celebration that preceded and now accompanies it.”

>Sadly, there’s much truth in the Post’s statement. The American Christmas celebration is largely a secular, sentimental, and commercial orgy that has overwhelmed or displaced the Church’s celebration of Christmas. But there is also falsification. The American Christmas is not more inclusive; it has a narrow vision; recognizing only the natural, it tolerates the supernatural only as a sentimental affectation or commercial prop.

>In contrast, the Catholic Church is universal, catholic, and inclusive: no one who professes what the Church professes is excluded; all are welcome. America builds border walls to exclude Mexicans, but the Church welcomes all believers regardless of race, color, sex, age, physical infirmity, or national origin. Christ came not for one nation or tribe, but for all men. The Church celebrates Christmas as the birth of Him who redeemed all mankind, not just Americans, not just Jews. What could be more inclusive?

>Writing in the New York Times last December, musician Michael Feinstein captioned his piece: “Whose Christmas Is It?” Feinstein also embraces the fatuous idea championed in the Post editorial that Christmas is becoming better because it is becoming secular and inclusive. But he probes a little deeper into the genesis of the popular songs that abet the transformation of Christmas into a national holiday instead of a Catholic holyday.

http://www.culturewars.com/2010/Subversion.htm
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>>78405359
Yeah, that's true. it's just weird that America seems to pride itself on christian values and shit and it's the only place where Happy Holidays is really a thing.

It's not like Merry Christmas is trying to push religion on people or anything, it's just tradition! We're literally off work and getting drunk right now because of christmas, which is cool no matter what you believe in
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>>78405409
A Priest with a blog is a televangelist? All he did was point out the historical reasons for dating Christmas on the 25th.
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>>78405359
when stores aren't allowed to say "Merry Christmas" you can't blame people for getting a little on edge
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>>78405427
I just use it as a way to combine Christmas/New Year's.
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>>78405426
>Feinstein also embraces the fatuous idea championed in the Post editorial that Christmas is becoming better because it is becoming secular and inclusive.
>Feinstein

Don't make me say it.
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>>78405411
Mele Kalikimaka bruh
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>>78405426

The only people who enjoy the religious aspects of Christmas are uptight Christians.

Cause nobody else likes having to go to church on Christmas.
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>>78405446
That's what I always assumed people meant when they said Happy Holidays
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>>78405491
>The only people who enjoy the religious aspects of Christmas are uptight Christians.

Or people who care about their culture. Or people who appreciate the deeper meaning of the day.

Or people who don't want to see religious traditions lost is a smog of commercialism and multicultural nonsense.
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>>78405439
I'm pretty sure the stores are allowed to, it's just better business to go with the inoffensive choice.

You shouldn't be basing your morals on what the stores are doing anyway.
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>>78400719
Is this episode Classic Simpsons, Zombie Simpsons, or Transitional simpsons?
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>>78405436
The first thing I saw on that page was an advertisement for a book, as well as them just being all over that page in general. So yeah if his blog is cluttered with advertisements for his book series, then yeah I'm gonna call him a televangelist.
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>>78405537
Nobody is offended by "Merry Christmas" besides uppity Jews.
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>>78405527
Exactly, uptight Christians.
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>>78405551

I'll throw you a bone because it's Christmas

Transitional simpsons
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>>78400719
>Kwanzaa
>colors in tthe wrong order
triggered
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>>78405527
Yeah, uptight Christians

There are plenty of Christmas traditions unique to each culture that have almost nothing to do with religion. If anything, the religious aspect of Christmas is one of the less culturally unique parts of it.
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>>78405553
A lot of bloggers have e-books (and he isn't even self-published. He's a real author with a real publisher). How does this invalidate anything he said in the article?
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Christmas needs more fish
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>>78405537
there was a time when America was mostly Christian you know
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>>78405558
You sound like a successful businessman.
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>>78405607
It still is.
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>>78402992
That doesn't mean it isn't made up bullshit, just that it's really old made-up bullshit. Like comparing Alice in Wonderland to Harry Potter.
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>>78405606
Don't touch me! Nothing gives you that right!
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>>78405607
It still is.

It's just better business to offend the least amount of people possible.

And no matter how much you raise a stink about "Happy Holidays" being a thing, you'll always be the least amount of people.
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>>78403011
>Christmas itself is just an appropriated pagan festival
more likely despite being converted, many of the Germanic people still kept their traditions alive, even bringing Santa back
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>>78405566
>>78405584

The majority of the world is Christian and celebrates for religious reasons. Just because you're a freeloader who just wants a day off work doesn't mean you can secularize a meaningful religious holiday while the sandniggers are waging a war of cultural subversion on us.

>The only people who enjoy the religious aspects of Christmas are uptight Christians.

And those traditions only exist and have meaning because they are accessory to a religious holiday.
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>>78405649
>The majority of the world is Christian

The majority of the world is Chinese and Indian so somehow I doubt they're Christians.
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>>78405666
China has a rapidly growing Christian population and will be a Christian majority in 20 years.
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>>78405527
>multicultural nonsense
Christmas is a lot of multicultural nonsense, the trees are German, the stockings are greek I think, poinsettias are hispanic, etc. The Christmas we grew up with is a blend of several different traditions stitched together. There's no way you can say you've ever experienced a Christmas that didn't have it's traditions seeped in multicultural nonsense, since all that shit happened before you were born.
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>>78405606

>You will never be paid a million dollars to throw fish guts on people at Christmas
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>>78405641
The Germanic peoples didn't bring back Santa. Coxa Cola did. Plus, St. Nikolaos of Myra was not Germanic.
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>>78405649
People can find whatever meaning they want in a holiday, nobody's telling you to let go of your traditions but aggressively trying to preserve something which is inherently mutable is difficult at best and harmful at worst. What about all the 'traditional' stuff that nobody does anymore? People who practice the religious side of Christmas are just as choosy in what traditions they respect as people who have a secular Christmas, and nobody is more right or wrong in those decisions. Just do what you fucking want, it's Christmas!
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>>78405691
Coca Cola*
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>>78405683
And all of those are accents to a liturgical holiday. Watering down or dismissing the religious aspects of Christmas in the name of "inclusivivity" (i.e. appeasing Jews and Muslims) undermine the meaning of the holiday itself and render it meaningless. There's a reason Russia is an a cultural ascendency after having rediscovered it's Christian identity while the West is on the decline.
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>>78405649
>And those traditions only exist and have meaning because they are accessory to a religious holiday.
That's not true, some of those traditions existed and had meaning before the religious holiday of Christmas existed. They just got looped in and the church didn't care as long as they were loyal to the church.
Adapting old pagan traditions isn't something that odd for the church, it's part of why we don't know anything about Russian and some eastern european mythologies, because the church just folded some old gods in and made them saints.
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>>78405728
What a load of post-modern garbage. Christmas doesn't stop being about Christ just because some aimless millennials just want a day off.
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>>78405758
Oh, so you're just retarded.

How did you get out of /pol/?
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>Trying to secularize christmas
Is there anything americans won't try to ruin
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>>78405551
This is nowhere near classic Simpsons. This was when Simpsons was staring to become more about political satire based plots as opposed to a sitcom with hints of satire. It's message of corporations using people to come up with ideas for products was like being hit over the head with a sledgehammer in terms of subtlety. It's transitional Simpsons.
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>>78405777
>some of those traditions existed and had meaning before the religious holiday of Christmas existed.

And they nonetheless became secondary, accessories to the liturgical holiday of Christmas.

>because the church just folded some old gods in and made them saints.
That's a fedora theory.

>>78405783
Spare me your /pol/ boogeyman. If you want to commit cultural suicide, don't drag everyone else down with you.
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>>78405778
Sure it does, it can be whatever you want it to be. I don't know why you're so threatened by people celebrating a holiday differently to you, your ancestors probably celebrated it differently to you, were they also wrong?
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>>78405758
>And all of those are accents to a liturgical holiday
No they aren't, well aside from the poinsettias. They're pagan traditions that no one ever stomped out and people started associating with the liturgical holiday. If you want a pure christian Christmas you have to throw all of that out, which wouldn't be too hard honestly.
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>>78405829
>If you want to commit cultural suicide, don't drag everyone else down with you.

It's not my culture, bro.

And if you think Russia is anything but desperately struggling to be relevant then you're a moron.
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>>78405423
Thanks for posting my waifu.
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>>78405829
>That's a fedora theory.
That's not a fedora theory, that's literally what happened. The catholic church doesn't give a shit and let people practice old cultural traditions as long as they paid their dues. It's why different groups of Catholicism have completely different practices. Like Hispanics and their "Prayer Candles".
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>>78405849
Because it's not just a "holiday", and the fact that there's such a hostile resistance from media to recognizing any higher significance to Christmas is a sign of decline.

>>78405852
>They're pagan traditions that no one ever stomped out and people started associating with the liturgical holiday

Exactly, they lost their pagan meaning and are no accents to a Christian celebration.

>>78405871
Oh, so you're a Turkish homo.

>>78405915
I wasn't referring to that, I was referring to you idea that old pagan gods became saints. While this probably happened at a local level, they were never recognized as such by the Pope.
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>>78405964
>Oh, so you're a Turkish homo.

Nope, just not a Christian.
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>>78405964
I never said those saints were recognized by the pope, I just said no one ever stopped them from practicing old traditions along with the new. Also the old pagan traditions are tied closer to the secular commercial elements of Christmas than they are the christian celebration of the birth of christ.
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>>78403633
There are very few africans that think highly of pan-africanism
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>>78401019
>Gun Witch hates cake, but can't stop eating it.png
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>>78401472
>celebrating a Reddit-tier holiday

What's next, Krampus?
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>>78405964
>Christians steal a pagan holiday
>get mad when secularists steal it back from them
Geese and ganders.
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>>78406178
Krampus was already adapted into mainstream Christmas traditions years ago. The switches part of coal and switches refers to the Krampus who would use switches to beat kids.
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>>78402877
>>78402899

Literally no one gives a shit about Kwanzaa. It was made up by some college professor in the 60s. Black people don't give a fuck about it.
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>>78401015
I think in the Weekender's the main-characters mom is Wiccan or Pagan and they celebrate winter solstice, I think
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>>78406224
I've never heard of "coal and switches." Just that bad kids get coal.
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>>78405411
>The fuck kinda commie shit is that? Get the hell out of my country.
'Merica everybody.
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>>78406310
It's coal and switches, I'm guessing switches stopped getting used after whipping your kids wasn't cool anymore.
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>>78405558
I can't understand why anybody would possibly find it offensive at all. Hell, if a Muslim or a Jew wished me a happy Ramadan of Chanukah I'd recognise it as a positive thing - Someone might not share my beliefs but they're still hoping I have a nice day. I don't give a fuck what their reason is.

But then I'm a Britbong like >>78405323 and nobody tries to be politically correct about Christmas here anyway.
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>>78406806
It's not a big deal in the more secular parts of the country.

It's mostly just the regions where religion happens to be a big deal.

Christianity is injected into everything in those places and other religions and the non-religious are made to feel like outsiders and thus Happy Holidays was created to appease them. But the Christians took offense to Happy Holidays and now they're at war with each other over this whole non-issue.

In the more secular parts of the country, less people care and there's less religion around in general so people aren't as defensive about what they believe in.
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>>78403494
>>78406806
It seems like the people that get offended are the people overhearing other people say "Merry Christmas" to each other (ie, they're not part of the conversation). It's interesting though when cashiers and waiters have to say happy holidays instead of Merry Christmas. You'd think they'd just parrot whatever the customer said.

If a customer says Merry Christmas, then it's safe to assume they either celebrate it, or aren't offended by the phrase. If they say happy holidays, then you just say happy holidays right back.

It's kind of saddening to see more and more trivial things become offensive.
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>>78401015
Kwanzaa is also in December
Ramadan floats around the calendar
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>>78406933
Kwanzaa isn't just in December, it starts the day after Christmas.
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>>78406806
>I can't understand why anybody would possibly find it offensive at all.
You can't criticize Judaism because MUH SHOAH, nor Islam because multiculturalism and "PoC"s.

But Christianity is regarded as a white religion, so anything related to it is oppressive, sexist and problematic.
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>>78407033
>You can't criticize Judaism because nor Islam

Really? Because that seems to be all a certain segment of Christians do.
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>>78407070
people get fired for criticizing Islam and Judaism, not one gets fired for criticizing Christianity
the media won't go out of their way to criticizing Judaism and Islam (anymore) but will Christianity
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>>78407131
Sounds like a lot of made up bullshit.
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>>78407131
>not one gets fired for criticizing Christianity
Really? Not even at chains like Chik-fil-a?
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>>78407154
just cause you refuse to believe doesn't mean it isn't
remember the San Bernardino shooting?
before the races were revealed lots of people wanted them to be white, but turns out they were Muslims, the neighbors of they thought they were up to something but didn't want to say anything and be called racist
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>>78407224
What does that have to do with people getting fired?
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>>78407260
being labeled racist can lose you your job, even if islam isn't a race
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>>78407224
That's not a coherent point.

You're just regurgitating a bunch of bullshit based on fear and paranoia.
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>>78407294
fear is a rational response to actual danger
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>>78407283
Maybe if you start spouting out things like raghead or sandnigger at the office.
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>>78403128
>we really should start celebrating something in the summer
You mean Easter? You know, that whole death and resurrection thing?
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>>78407335
in the UK the police won't arrest Muslims and give them lax sentences if convicted
but will arrest people for "hate speech" and give them sentences just as long as actual muslim rapists
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>>78407370
That lands squarely in spring.

Summer doesn't start until June.
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>>78400719
I'm black and I've never seen anyone celebrate Kwanzaa.
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>>78405122

10/10
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>>78405491
>>78405566
>>78405584

Fuck all of you. Not even a Christian.
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>>78406913
>cashiers and waiters have to say happy holidays instead of Merry Christmas

Only if their upper management is a scrooge and makes them say it, which is usually the kind of situation where its enforced policy to say "have a nice day" every other time of year (instead of just being common sense and allowed to happen naturally.) I wait tables at a private establishment and we pretty much wish our customers a happy whatever holiday we want.
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>>78401498

Jews aren't white now?
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