• @mvirts@lemmy.world
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      110 months ago

      Lol it’s so deeply ingrained right in front of everyone’s nose. Magic Santa, magic reindeer, magic elves and that’s just the stuff before propaganda like Rudolph and Frosty came around.

      God forbid I get a Harry Potter book on Christmas and being magical thinking into this mess.

      • @JimmyChanga@lemmy.world
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        110 months ago

        Old St.Nic is only dressed in red cause of coca-cola, more a capitalist celebration than a Christian one at this point

  • Phoenixz
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    210 months ago

    Because Christmas is as much about Christianity as my rear end. It’s a nice festivity that comes from old customs, and nobody has a problem with keeping the nicer parts of culture and customs while filtering out the crappy parts.

      • Liz
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        010 months ago

        What? Can you cite that?

        • @funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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          110 months ago

          I am (s)lightly joking. I’m referring to this passage which does seem to describe Christmas trees. Although if you’re actually doing a deep theological study you can make a good argument for how it’s referring to a specific form of idolatry — but it is amusingly close!

          Jeremiah 10 NIV

          1 Hear what the LORD says to you, O house of Israel. 2 This is what the LORD says: “Do not learn the ways of the nations or be terrified by signs in the sky, though the nations are terrified by them. 3 For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut a tree out of the forest, and a craftsman shapes it with his chisel. 4 They adorn it with silver and gold; they fasten it with hammer and nails so it will not totter.