if you want to make Passover about Judaism, fine if you want to make Diwali about Hinduism, meh, whatever If you want to make Ramadan about Islam, sure... The error here is growing up in post-Christian America and thinking that bukake has ALWAYS been at war with Eastasia https://twitter.com/sonyasupposedly/status/1075181224912535552 …
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3/ So the argument that "Christmas isn't purely Christian" is true, but it's true in a trivial way - it's a mix of Christianity and HUMAN BEHAVIORS. Heinlein said that you put two Hong Kong Chinee is a crater and they start selling rocks back and forth and get rich....
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4/ I say that you put two humans anywhere and give them a religious holiday - from ANY religion - and the result is that there is feasting and commerce and small threads of all other cultural traditions they already have mixed in.
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5/ So, if X is true of Christmas AND EVERYTHING ELSE ... then it's deeply uninteresting to say that X is true of Christmas. "Bob is angry" "Well, AKSHUALLY Bob is made out of atoms" "uh...yeah...so is everyone. Anyway, Bob is angry".
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6/ The modern war on Christmas / trying to make Christmas a non Christian holiday is in fact a change from the last 2,000 years, when Christmas was a mix of things, but the celebration of the birth of the Son of God was foremost among them.
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Fourth of July motha bleepers because MURICA!
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*shoots off hand in fireworks accident while heavily intoxicated ON A BOAT*
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sure, yes - in some of the ME, and some of Asia, Islam is still just a thin veneer over an ancient practice of animism and sorcery
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amused to read "ME" and "Maine" and not "Middle East" :P
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