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merry christmas or whatever holiday this cult celebrates

Going to be gone for a few days. Bye people. Merry Christmas. Enjoy your holidays. Make sure to brush your teeth. Even the back ones. I promise to write. I don't know what exactly though. It'll definitely be in English. I am also fluent in Chinese though. I am also getting 95% in French. I like men. However, I'm in French one grade level below my grade. That's because I didn't take French last year, so I'm making up for it this year. It's really easy. My teacher is really laid back.

Originally Posted by Nitro

I like men.

CALLED IT.

Merry Christmas to URPG btw.

My first Christmas with the URPG. Go merry it.

merry christmas i hate you all

You gotta be nice on Jesus' birthday

Merry Christmas to those who celebrate it.

Originally Posted by Fawkes.

You gotta be nice on Jesus' birthday

Technically, it's impossible for Jesus to have been born anywhere near winter. We just use December 25th because...well...uhh...we had to choose a day, didn't we? And everyone else celebrates on winter, so...yeah.

It's the corporations I tell ya.

It's something to do with the fact that when the Christians or the Romans or something wanted to convert the unwashed masses to their religion, they decided to shift the birthday to coincide with the traditional summer festival to make it easier for everyone else to swallow. I don't remember exactly, my Philosophy of Religion class was last year and I'm too lazy to look it up. Jesus' birthday was actually in like March or something anyway.

Originally Posted by ChainReaction01

It's something to do with the fact that when the Christians or the Romans or something wanted to convert the unwashed masses to their religion, they decided to shift the birthday to coincide with the traditional summer festival to make it easier for everyone else to swallow. I don't remember exactly, my Philosophy of Religion class was last year and I'm too lazy to look it up. Jesus' birthday was actually in like March or something anyway.

May 15th.

(he doesn't even go here o-o)

Originally Posted by Synthesis

May 15th.

(he doesn't even go here o-o)

cock tease :[ <\3

Originally Posted by ChainReaction01

It's something to do with the fact that when the Christians or the Romans or something wanted to convert the unwashed masses to their religion, they decided to shift the birthday to coincide with the traditional summer festival to make it easier for everyone else to swallow. I don't remember exactly, my Philosophy of Religion class was last year and I'm too lazy to look it up. Jesus' birthday was actually in like March or something anyway.

It was the other way around actually. The ones that were not converted wanted the Christians to join in their celebration of the birth of the God of the Sun. Since the Christian Romans had taken over anyways, they changed the name of the God of the Sun to Jesus and then everyone joined in. Or something like that...History was never my best subject. ^^;

Originally Posted by Eraizaa-kun

It was the other way around actually. The ones that were not converted wanted the Christians to join in their celebration of the birth of the God of the Sun. Since the Christian Romans had taken over anyways, they changed the name of the God of the Sun to Jesus and then everyone joined in. Or something like that...History was never my best subject. ^^;

Essentially, experience showed that pan-theistic (i.e. muliple god) people would tend to celebrate their old fesitvals anyway, working along lines of tradition and thinking that it wouldn't hurt to appeal to as many gods as possible anyway (not really getting the mono-theistic nature of Christianity) - so it was easier to 'convert' the festivals too. It helps that I think there are actually a few that fall nearby anyway (Easter is the only one I can think of - Passover occurs near-enough around the time of a pagan festival).
The thing I always find hilarious is that the people who accuse us Christians of stealing festivals and say we shouldn't celebrate them tend to be atheists and don't seem to see the hipocracy of celebrating a religious festival, converted from another religious fesitval, whilst telling us off for doing the same.

Anyway Merry Christmas all (especially to those of you who don't celebrate it :P)

Happy late Zombie Jesus Day.