• VisualBuilder4@feddit.de
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    Well … Holiday comes from the Old English hāligdæg, meaning holy day. So it closer to it than one might think. But on the other hand … conservative christians might not get that connection

    • ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃@pawb.social
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      Which is why I wish them a Merry Yule and the All Father’s blessing, and watch them act like they’re gonna die of contact with an unclean heathen…

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        This usually gets downvoted but I love it when people remind Christians that all of their holidays are bastardized versions of other cultures holidays.

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          Yule, Ostara (easter), Samhain (All Hallow’s Eve / Halloween)… It was the forced removal and conversion of entire cultures and ethnic lifestyles, often with the threat of death for those who don’t re-identify themselves. If only there was a word for the killing of entire ethnocultural groups…

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          What about the obscure ones only followed in like one village in Europe cause some Saint died there?

          Oh before I forget, have a Happy Michealmas! Will you be serving the traditional michealmas bread and goose?

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      It was also the default greeting in the 1800’s.

      They changed it somewhere at the start of 1900’s to force Christianity on more people.