Later invention, I’m afraid! German-American cartoonist Thomas Nast is often credited with the modern design of Santa Claus during the US Civil War, of all times.
I always loved that about modern Christian holidays … they all pretend it has something to do with ancient biblical traditions … when all along it was just ancient pagan traditions
We have a breaded white man in a suit to celebrate the birth of Christ … and a Bunny Rabbit to celebrate his death … and we also like to take a day of the year to celebrate death, demons and the underworld on Halloween.
At this point … I think everyone does now. As soon as Halloween is over, it just rolls into ‘Spend! Spend! Spend!, honour thy Gods of finance!, fill your immediate desires and forget everything!!!’ … if you ask people about they bible and birth of Christ, they just nod and say ‘yeah, yeah, I know, I gotta buy another gallon of egg nog and order the latest Iphone’
Christianity is joke now at this point … many people associate themselves to it but most just pay lip service to it all and do whatever they want (even doing and saying things contrary to biblical teachings or ideals) believing that as long as they say they are followers of the religion, then everything’s OK. Ask your average Christian to recite the ‘Lord’s Prayer’ or name the ten commandments and most won’t know what you’re talking about.
Later invention, I’m afraid! German-American cartoonist Thomas Nast is often credited with the modern design of Santa Claus during the US Civil War, of all times.
That being said, many of the traditions of Christmas are linked to Saturnalia.
I always loved that about modern Christian holidays … they all pretend it has something to do with ancient biblical traditions … when all along it was just ancient pagan traditions
We have a breaded white man in a suit to celebrate the birth of Christ … and a Bunny Rabbit to celebrate his death … and we also like to take a day of the year to celebrate death, demons and the underworld on Halloween.
It’d be much cooler to celebrate liberty in December instead of some kid being born too, tbqh.
At this point … I think everyone does now. As soon as Halloween is over, it just rolls into ‘Spend! Spend! Spend!, honour thy Gods of finance!, fill your immediate desires and forget everything!!!’ … if you ask people about they bible and birth of Christ, they just nod and say ‘yeah, yeah, I know, I gotta buy another gallon of egg nog and order the latest Iphone’
Christianity is joke now at this point … many people associate themselves to it but most just pay lip service to it all and do whatever they want (even doing and saying things contrary to biblical teachings or ideals) believing that as long as they say they are followers of the religion, then everything’s OK. Ask your average Christian to recite the ‘Lord’s Prayer’ or name the ten commandments and most won’t know what you’re talking about.