• pyre@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    please don’t embarrass Kevin Sorbo. Lucy Lawless has done it enough times.

    • mvirts@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Lol it’s so deeply ingrained right in front of everyone’s nose. Magic Santa, magic reindeer, magic elves and that’s just the stuff before propaganda like Rudolph and Frosty came around.

      God forbid I get a Harry Potter book on Christmas and being magical thinking into this mess.

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    9 months ago

    Because Christmas is as much about Christianity as my rear end. It’s a nice festivity that comes from old customs, and nobody has a problem with keeping the nicer parts of culture and customs while filtering out the crappy parts.

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    9 months ago

    Well, the bible (old testament?) explicitly prohibits cutting and decorating a tree for religious traditions … the better question would be: Why are the christians putting up trees on christmas?

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      9 months ago

      Does it really? Do you happen to have the verse? That’ll be absolutely perfect for my in laws…

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        9 months ago

        Jeremiah 10:1-4

        Kings James version (see link for others):

        Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel.  Thus saith the Lord: “Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.  For the customs of the people are vain; for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the ax. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.