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[โ€“] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Christmas traditions are so far removed from Jesus and Christianity... They were literally stolen from pagan beliefs that existed before Christianity as a way of converting the pagans to Christianity.

However, they do call it Christmas and I don't see how you'd have that name without having a Christ figure. ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ

[โ€“] tourist 17 points 10 months ago

symbol for the religion called whocifix

[โ€“] vind 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Well most of Christmas as we know it comes from Yule, the Nordic winter solstice celebration

[โ€“] buckwheat 14 points 10 months ago

Can we follow that logic to assume they had Who vikings, going around Whourope Seussically pillaging Whonasteries and Whollages and whimsically blood eagling Who peasants?

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

So they had whoids that made a stone henge.

[โ€“] MichaelobRegular 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I always chalk up fictional universes as being translated to you as storytelling. The Whos probably don't even speak English anyway so everything is translated and what we call Christmas is a crude translation from whatever they call it. I seek solace in that they celebrate a pagan gift giving tradition with decorating similar to our Christmas but without the Christ.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

This is blasphemy against Whosus. In Whoville you would be burned in the grinch skin during midwhommer

[โ€“] xantoxis 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

OK if your'e going to come in here talking about how Christmas predates Christ, that's fine and you're right, but you're also required to post your version of the execution of Jesus.

Anyway I'm picturing some kind of catapult that flings him onto spikes.