…I’m going to tear my hair out.
Seriously, guys. CHRISTMAS is a CHRISTIAN holy day. Personally, I think they have every right to complain that people are taking the ‘Christ’ out of what they celebrate. It’s supposed to be about Jesus after all!
Yes, a lot of Christmas traditions are based on original Pagan practices, like decorating a tree and making a Yule log and so on…but it’s still a Christian holiday. About Christ. It’s not Yule! It’s not celebrating the Winter Solstice!
They haven’t stolen anything!
They can have their holy day. We can have ours. We can all get fat and be merry together.
Why do you think so many of the traditions of Yule are found as Christmas? The Catholic church literally did steal it. They used turning Yule into Christmas as a way of converting the Pagan masses in Englad and Ireland. They also turn Cernunnos into Satan, thus worshipping him made you a Satanist and a witch.
Actually, I agree with naturewitch. They didn’t actually ‘steal’ our celebration perse, they just placed their own very near to the time of ours, in the hopes that it would overshadow Yule and people would eventually forget Yule.If it had worked, we wouldn’t still be celebrating the Winter Solstice now, would we?
Also, it wasn’t Cernunnos they turned into Satan, it was Pan.
Cernunnos was relatively undiscovered, and there are actually very few carvings and inscriptions relating to him.
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http://paganwiccan.about.com/od/godsandgoddesses/p/Cernunnos.htm
“Because of his horns (and the occasional depiction of a large, erect phallus) Cernunnos has often been misinterpreted by fundamentalists as a symbol of Satan. Certainly, at times, the Christian church has pointed to the Pagan following of Cernunnos as “devil worship.” This is in part due to nineteenth century paintings of Satan which included large, ram-like horns much like those of Cernunnos.”
And trying to wipe out an entire religion and their holidays by using all the same traditions to make the followers assimilate is stealing. Paganism was almost entirely wiped out or completely underground for ages before the New Age movement happened and rekindled it.
You need to look deeper into the intricacies of history, than just quoting from paganwiccan.about.com. It’s hardly the most worldly of sources, and the Satanisation of Cernunnos is relatively new. It was Pan and his Satyrs that were demonised, because of the horns and goat legs.
It wasn’t an extermination, it was assimilation. Very much an ‘if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em’ attitude.
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And FFS, it’s not like modern (non-indigenous) pagans are carrying on some ancient unbroken tradition. Gardner made shit...
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I really don’t get the Cernunnos thing. While he is sometimes shown with horns, it’s more frequent to see him with...
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Absolutely. You can find pagan aspects in Christian holidays. There’s plenty of historical evidence for that. But that...
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