Christmas is aesthetically catastrophic. The lights are mostly ok, but everything else is garish, mishapen. Trees dying in your apartments, brain dead sing song blaring from every speaker, inane symbolism long unmoored from any spiritual roots. Wake me when it's over.
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But Abramic religions are built on a foundation of falsehood, so by simply ignoring that representation of a harsh god we have no need for the compassionate Christ. Therefore are we better off not celebrating the modern non religious version of xmas? We can find compassion in e/o
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No, they are not built on falsehood. The mythology has the correct shape, ie its models are isomorphic to the desired specification of coordination in a stable agrarian society. Is only false if you require peasants to understand cosmology, which you don’t.
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