To all those who actually celebrate the stuff...

[stellarwind]

Merry Pagan Holiday In Guise of Christian Propaganda! ^_^

I'd toss in a picture or something but I'm way too tired and artblock'd to draw anything.

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[kilderok.livejournal.com]

Oh GOOD, yeah I kinda KNEW you saw through the RUSE, but this just confirms it! XD I find the hilarity of the matter that is modern day CHRISTmas celebrated pagan-style perplexing beyond comparison.

And so, I have gone and done a bad thing and nailed the Grinch on an upside down cross. Oh dear. D:

[stellarwind.livejournal.com]

"Christian" holidays generally amuse me. Mostly because of the fact that the grand majority of them are pagan festivals that have been celebrated, relatively unchanged, for years - only they had little Buddy Christ™ figurines glued to them to make them seem 'Christian' so that the religious pricks of back-then could demonize pagan traditions even further without breaking people's habits TOO much.

Ya know, the sort of 'Join us, our holidays are conveniently similar to the heathens', only they involve a random messiah-type person! Oh yeah and if you don't join us you worship the devil and will burn in hell. Yay guilt!'

Kinda makes me think of how Emperor Constantinus of the Roman Empire linked Jesus to the Sun God to convert people from the then-common Sol Invictus religion because suddenly they're magically the same thing just with a name attached to it. Conveniently they forgot that it was themselves that hanged the poor bugger on a big wooden pair of sticks in the first place.

Apparently in order to create an effective religion you don't need to be creative. All ya need to do is assimilate concepts that are commonplace at the time, give them a new connotation and a nice splash of paint - and voila. And make sure you tell your followers that you were there first.

Well, I fib. I read a bit of the unofficial sequel (my personal pet name for The New Testament) and Revelation has got to be the most amusing Drug Trip I've ever read. >> Ya gotta love an end of the world scenario that involves a bunch of riders and giant cubical sky cities of gold with giant freaky-ass multi-eyed multi-winged animals that bark HOLY HOLY HOLY all the live-long day.

Oof. If THAT scenario was real by any chance, I'd rather burn on the surface while the armies of heaven and hell duke it out. The view would be immensely better AND I could listen to some *quality* music as I become a civilian casualty. Although In the real final moments I'd probably blast REM's "It's The End Of The World As We Know It And I Feel Fine" just to spite them. XP