• HughJanus@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    Coming at him with a personal insult is not the way to go about this.

    The correct way is to point out that most Christmas traditions are not rooted in Christianity, but in paganism.

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      10 months ago

      Exactly. What is Christian about chopping down an evergreen and put it in your house? That’s a pre-christian fertility symbol to invoke the turn of the solar year and the next agricultural season.

      Also, the man is an idiot.

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      10 months ago

      Nah, simple facts don’t work on people like Sorbo. Insults don’t really work either, but at least that’s funnier.

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      It’s Santa’s birthday. What does it even have to do with Christians?

      On a serious note it doesn’t matter. They don’t want to engage and they aren’t going to change their views. This is for the echo chamber.

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      10 months ago

      And also, it doesn’t matter.

      I don’t give a shit what kind of holiday it is, it’s just an excuse to have a day off, be with your loved ones and eat good food.

      I could do that any time of the year but most people seem to like this particular season and it works for me.

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        I could do that any time of the year

        I really don’t think you could. This is a time of year that the entire country recognizes as “holiday season”, so there’s a good chance your entire family can take off of work and all be together at that time of year.

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          10 months ago

          I meant it more as in " this holiday season could be any time of the year".

          Obviously we can only get off work and meet on something like a holiday, but it doesn’t matter to me what the holiday is about, or when it is, as long as i get a day off it’s all the same to me.

          Edit: Also, that’s why i said

          “most people seem to like this particular season”

          By most people i meant society. We as a society decided this is “holiday season”, but it could be any other time of the year and it’d make little difference to me.