Christmas has little to do with Christianity by the time you start decorating trees n shit. I’m an atheist, born and raised. We still had a tree and everything. If anything, our pagan forefathers celebrated summer solstice long before they met any Christians and probably long before Christ even walked the earth.
Also in my previous comment I did mean winter solstice - but we do also celebrate summer solstice and always have. In the winter, there’s a feast, which was supposed to be necessary to have a bountiful new year. In the summer, big fires are made to celebrate the sun. There were different gods and other mythological figures, but the key part that’s still survived to this day, is sun worship. And to me, that’s the most sensible religion you can have. One of the best comedians of all time agrees with me - or maybe I took it from him
Christmas has little to do with Christianity by the time you start decorating trees n shit. I’m an atheist, born and raised. We still had a tree and everything. If anything, our pagan forefathers celebrated summer solstice long before they met any Christians and probably long before Christ even walked the earth.
Christmas has much more to do with Yule and Yule’s predecessors than it does with Christ, at least for anyone outside of Christianity.
Indeed. In my language it’s called “Jõulud”.
Also in my previous comment I did mean winter solstice - but we do also celebrate summer solstice and always have. In the winter, there’s a feast, which was supposed to be necessary to have a bountiful new year. In the summer, big fires are made to celebrate the sun. There were different gods and other mythological figures, but the key part that’s still survived to this day, is sun worship. And to me, that’s the most sensible religion you can have. One of the best comedians of all time agrees with me - or maybe I took it from him
I was wondering if you were Australian, Christmas is around the summer solstice here :)
Ah no, never been :( Though the Aussie youth working visa is very popular among Estonian youth, so I know several people who have.