Flax

For what

my friend did as a trans woman

Average american

Less freedom? You cannot even have your garden now you want without a “HOA” getting involved. Or choose your own broadband provider because Comcast bribed local officials. Or even doing something as simple as changing your own name without convincing a judge to let you.

I still have a better deal then, lol

You literally go into debt over a stomach ache

I have freedom of speech.

All he did was lob a petrol bomb through a window. Where I come from, we chuck them at the police every summer for sport.

Legend

Except in the 1500s, paganism was generally long gone- at that time, there was no point in placating it. The UK was under a lot of German and french influence, and less so nordic influence. Something as open and humanly universal as “pagans were bringing plants into the house” doesn’t necessarily mean Christmas trees are of pagan origin. Just that pagans brought plants into the house. (With that logic- is putting some flowers out on the table paganism?)

Your timeline at 4 is wrong - Christmas was celebrated as early as the second century. Hyppolitus mentioned it and it’s also mentioned in the Epistle of Theophilus.

you’re completely wrong

He isn’t a United States citizen, he’s a citizen of El Salvador

Why do people still take this guy seriously

Wouldn’t make sense for it to hang after the equinox - wouldn’t it start hanging before with the equinox as it’s peak?

You’d make a good American Evangelical by the way you take the Bible out of context.

Christmas trees started as a German tradition where trees were decorated in September with Eucharist Hosts to represent the Tree of Life in Eden, for celebrating Creationtide. As time went on and the tradition travelled, it eventually was used for Christmas.

They’re cringe

21+3 is 24.

Theologians have debated that one. I recently attended a service where the minister argued for Good Friday being more important.

Christmas is the Incarnation - so it’s like arguing over the most important part of a purchase.

Christmas - money put on the table Good Friday - money taken Easter - Receipt printed

Just don’t have it

The winter solstice is on the 21st of December, not the 25th. The dating of Christmas has nothing to do with it.

Christmas is the date it is because it is 9 months (human gestation period) after the Feast of the Annunciation (25th of March) which gets it’s date from an old attributed date of Jesus’ death.

In fact, the reason the UK tax date is in March is for the same reason - the new year was the Annunciation. Then 12 days difference due to the Julian/Gregorian shift.

Edit:

Also, the link you provided debunks your own claim-

The popular theory that Christians chose Dec. 25 to co-opt the pagan solstice festival of Sol Invictus is not based on strong evidence but on the margin scribblings of an unnamed Syrian monk in the 12th century.

And once again echoes what I said

Not related to the Christian holiday of Christmas, they’re secular