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Did the Christians take Christmas/easter from saturnalia/ostera.

ChatGPT: The idea that Christians "took" Easter from a pagan festival, particularly one dedicated to a goddess named Ostera (or Eostre), is a widespread claim, but it is not supported by strong historical evidence. Here's a breakdown of the situation: Origins of the Claim • The notion...

The claim that Christians "took" Christmas from the Roman pagan festival of Saturnalia is a popular misconception that oversimplifies history. Here's a breakdown of the issue: What Was Saturnalia? • Saturnalia was a Roman festival held in honor of the god Saturn. It typically took place...

The pagans literally spent the centuries preceding Christian dominance feeding them to lions and crucifying the early church members. Spare me the outrage at a little art desecration.

Turkey bacon is an abomination to flavor.

Every time you open your mouth, I’m further convinced the best part of you dribbled down your mothers thigh.

It really is the can of Yerba mate that sells the meme.

To make the GDP line go up. Obviously./s

This song has been living rent free in my head since that Far Cry game first dropped. I appreciate Ubisoft giving gun owners an anthem.

It’s basically monkeys on typewriters.

My understanding of certain denominations position on alcohol is that the Bible has prohibitions specifically against drunkenness and not really on the act of consumption itself. So, spiritually speaking, if you just drink in moderation and don’t act a drunken fool or let alcoholism consume...

It’s called “crabs in a bucket mentality” You see it a lot among certain communities as well. White rednecks and ghetto blacks frequently have this issue. There isn’t anything certain people hate more than seeing one of “their own” being successful. Because it can cause introspection on what...

No one in this thread, that I’ve seen posting in reply to Zach’s horseshit, is simping for Russia. The most anyone has said so far has been pretty much “Russia is a hellhole and would suck to live in, but a globalist hellhole would suck even worse to live in.” How tf is that simping for...

Ultimately, if the choice is between a US entirely beholden to the whims of globohomo, the establishmentarians, and the radical left or the corrupt, totalitarian hellhole of Russia… I’d have trouble saying I wouldn’t choose the Russians in that particular fight. It’s hypothetical anyways. The...

It’s just to bad that FO4 and FO76 suck ass, because I actually really like the landscape design in both. FO4 is all right as a time killer, but they ripped out so much of the SPECIAL system that it’s barely regocnizable and the actual dialogue options have been simplified down so much that it...

Honestly? Glassing is starting to look somewhat attractive right now.

Big shot local business man and city council basically conspire to fuck over a small business owner. Small business owner does basically everything in his power to avoid going out of business and has constant meetings with city government officials. City government officials ignore him. Small...

Because the native British, excepting football hooligans, perpetually live in the mindset of: “oh, I don’t want to be a bother.” They’re basically the opposite mindset of the French, who riot at the drop of a hat.

Honestly, you could view the MAGA movement as the revenge of the Ron Paul Revolution and the Tea Party. The GOP establishment rat fucked Ron out of a nomination, infiltrated and destroyed the Tea Party, and years later an even bigger populist revolution pops out of the woodwork.