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[–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Which is why I wish them a Merry Yule and the All Father's blessing, and watch them act like they're gonna die of contact with an unclean heathen...

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    This usually gets downvoted but I love it when people remind Christians that all of their holidays are bastardized versions of other cultures holidays.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Yule, Ostara (easter), Samhain (All Hallow's Eve / Halloween)... It was the forced removal and conversion of entire cultures and ethnic lifestyles, often with the threat of death for those who don't re-identify themselves. If only there was a word for the killing of entire ethnocultural groups...

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