• ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃@pawb.social
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    1 year ago

    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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      1 year ago

      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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        1 year ago

        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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        1 year ago

        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?