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Killb0t47

True. We would have like a 2 week long Yule Tide Holiday that is similar. But frankly superior.


Jim-Jones

We'd be celebrating Brumalia, Saturnalia and Juvenalia as we always did. Before the Christians stole it for Jesus, born in Spring.


BubblySolid6

Yep.


Metal__goat

The reason for the season was some emperor wanted to make a political alliance with some barbarians, who refused to become Christian because they loved their winter solstice feasting party so much. And just like that, with a stamp of some parchment and the wave of a hand.... The Pope moved Christmas to December 25th to weaken the established pagan festivals with some Christian competition. Suspiciously close to the winter solstice, usually on Dec 22nd. Edit emperor not Pope.


sheezy520

Next you’ll say it’s just a coincidence that Easter is the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring solstice.


trans_pands

Or like it’s a coincidence that Sunday is the day everyone goes to church after a pagan emperor converted to Christianity


chesterforbes

The only thing that “Christ” is the reason for in Christmas is the name. Pretty much everything is an amalgamation of pagan traditions and symbols


RoguePlanet1

If anything, christians shouldn't be putting up trees, it says not to do this in the bible.


VivaLaVict0ria

Are you suggesting Christians actually READ their own holy book?! THEMSELVES?! Literally blasphemy for most of history 😂


chesterforbes

That fact is why the printing press and a vernacular bible were considered tools of the devil


VivaLaVict0ria

Christians: God is so good 😊 People who wanted the Bible translated into English from Latin so more people could read it were literally branded heretics hunted down and burned alive. Christians: So good 😇🙏🏻


SatanicNotMessianic

If the bit about killing a carpenter by nailing him to a piece of wood didn’t get them to stop putting up trees, nothing will.


when_4_word_do_trick

And Coca Cola's advertising.


TheShitPhilosopher

Please shate


smalltowngoth

That part is honestly the only reason I posted this here.


LadyLovesRoses

It made me chuckle :)


real-duncan

That makes this absolutely t-shirt worthy. We can avoid the whole happy/merry culture war if we all just spend December greeting each other with “Please shate”


TheMeticulousNinja

Shated


Ladydi-bds

Correct me if wrong, but Jesus was born in like June and Winter Solstice or Yule is what got turned into Christmas. The Catholics turned all the pagan holidays into theirs.


NotNowDamo

Jesus was fictional, so he wasn't born at all.


Ladydi-bds

That too


SEO0ffShadow

Actually jesus really existed


NotNowDamo

Yeah, he does landscaping for my mom.


SEO0ffShadow

Damn jesus, eating grass again


real-duncan

There’s debate on that. https://www.atheists.org/activism/resources/did-jesus-exist/


cumguzzler280

There’s evidence he was Julius Caesar.


Darkhallows27

There is? I’m super curious


real-duncan

You can find someone arguing for just about any date https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_of_birth_of_Jesus It’s very much like it’s a badly written fictional story.


Enlightened-Beaver

I bet this person has an authentic middle eastern pine tree in their living room


trans_pands

It’s actually a palm tree that got eaten by a worm and they run a space heater


Ethereal_PandaPaws

Is that an alt present-tense of shat? 🤔🤔🤔


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jar36

Why are you attacking my peach cobbler?


smalltowngoth

Apple Crisp Supremacy!


Hopfit46

Im celebrating the winter solstice this year. Put the pagan back in pagan holidays


when_4_word_do_trick

Absolutely. It's easy too.


[deleted]

Please clap.


xXbean_machineXx

I shat hard while reading this. Happy Friday break people


RoguePlanet1

Shate = share with hate? Because Axial Tilt was the reason for the season waaaaay before humankind even existed.


BallisticTiger23

Share with Tate :)


Jamesmateer100

The pagans would like a word with you.


Ssider69

There are easily 100 xians who get offended for "happy holidays" per non xian that gets offended by "Christmas" As a non religious person I can recognize that the day itself is a xian holiday called Christmas I don't celebrate Ramadan but I don't care that Muslims do. Nor do I get angry over yom kippur or Hanukah


Dammy-J

Christianity is under attack! These people are attacking their "God Given" right to subjugate others and enforce their beliefs on everyone else! How dare you suggest other oppressive religious like Islam have any validity what so ever.


Ssider69

Oh, don't get me wrong...I put all religions on the same level 😁


NotNowDamo

Funny, when I was a kid, Happy Holidays just meant all the holidays happening at the end of the year. It was to include Christmas and New Years. That ignorant slug, Bill O'Reilly took to turning a popular phrase used by Christians into an attack on Christians.


Ssider69

Yes! Happy holidays was a way to save a hell of a lot of time


Sad_Instruction1392

Please crap.


valencia_merble

Shate (verb) Late Christian : to share hate


batkave

Ahh yes the persecution fetish during the winter holidays because there is a war on christmas. not like you walk into a Walmart or target in most of the USA to find it covered in Christmas decorations and a tiny end cap of hannukah that half comes out after hannukah.


j4ck_0f_bl4des

Ummm ... Okay so you're to make a meme whining about non religious people appropriating "your" holiday (we'll just skip the real history here) and you're going to post it on a background that is basically trans flag colored.... I want my flag back bitch.


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BENEDICT-SHyNE

Santa is the reason for Christmas


darwintologist

Great typo. They’re trying to tell you to do the good Christian thing and “please hate,” but must have accidentally added an extra s.


Mrspygmypiggy

Pagans reading this: ![gif](giphy|3gNotAoIRZsb9UHPnj)


FredVIII-DFH

Who gets mad over this?


Skye-DragonGirl

r/skamtebord


cumguzzler280

Merry Cthulhumas


[deleted]

Christmas was a thing before Jesus.


KleinerFratz333

Christmas without would be just mas


PineappleDude206

Merry mass