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Merry Christmas 2024

Merry Christmas Wayne whatever the belief
 
To any ASF members who work on or spend Christmas Day alone you are in my thoughts. I have done both in the past. Fortunately I am celebrating with grandchildren, family and friends this year in Brisbane.

Stay safe, happy and well.

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One of the local councils in Melbourne are saying 'Happy festivities' or some such crap.
Am not trolling but to you and yours and indeed to everyone, have a magical, fantastic and fun festive season.
Oh and you may plan (or not) to drink and eat as much as I plan to!

Cheers, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year ASF.
 
Merry Christmas everyone, the ASF forum is still the best place on the net, to meet great people and know you will always be welcome and even if your not you wont know because the other person will put you on ignore.

Have a great day and for all you non drinkers, take solace in the fact, tomorrow you will be feeling a lot better than I will.

Thanks @Joe Blow for another terrific year of ASF.
 
Something to think about on Christmas Day. Really interesting story when you have more time to check it out.

Tom Holland on How Christianity Remade the World


Tom Holland joins Bari Weiss on Honestly (The Free Press)
This Christmas, one of our greatest living historians explains how one ‘radical message’ came to define the entirety of the Western world.
By Bari Weiss
12.25.24

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Whether you believe in the story of the virgin birth and resurrection, or you believe that those miracles are myths, one thing is beyond dispute: The story of Jesus and the message of Christianity is among the stickiest ideas the world has ever seen.
Within four centuries of Jesus’s death, Christianity had become the official religion of the Roman Empire. It had 30 million followers—which amounted to half the empire. Today, two millennia later, Christianity is still the largest religion in the world, with more than 2 billion adherents.

How did the radical message of Christianity catch on? How did it change the world? And how does it shape all our lives today?
These questions motivate the latest episode of Honestly. My guest is the incredible historian Tom Holland, one of the most gifted storytellers in the world. His podcast, The Rest Is History, is among the most popular out there. Each week, he and his co-host, Dominic Sandbrook, charm their way through history’s most interesting characters and sagas. I can’t recommend it more highly.

 

Merry Christmas and God bless.

Without Christianity there would be no western society, the life that we enjoy and prosper in, and many in third world countries want to come to.

Be great full, share, and love.
 
Woke up fine. Hope everyone had an enjoyable Christmas.

All good here, up at 7am.

Christmas Eve dinner was at my mums with my siblings, and some of the offspring.

Christmas lunch was at ours, with my wife's family and our kids. Finished at 5:30pm and had to rush of for dinner at my Aunts.

I was tipsy on some excellent brews, over full with food as usual, but I didn't overdo it.

Today we are cleaning up and putting away.

I hope everyone had an enjoyable few days.

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