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I don't have time to look it up at the moment, but I believe the fat white bearded Santa in the red suit originally came from a Coca Cola ad.
You mean the pagan winter solstice celebration from which most of the Christmas symbolism was derived.
To be honest there is nothing religious about the way most Aussies celebrate Christmas, its moved past that.
The bible actual speaks against cutting down a tree, bringing it into your home and decorating it with gold because what we now call a Christmas tree is a pagan tradition, Many other examples also.
The fact is celebrating at that time of year goes across many cultures, and if we didn't have something to celebrate, were would have to invent something.
the things tink mentioned eg family, happiness, children are not owned by Christians, they are very secular things worth celebrating, and you don't need to referenece middle eastern mythology to do it.
If you want to teach kids the real historical origin of each of the traditions I am fine with that, using it as an opportunity to preach to kids one religion is wrong.
I don't have time to look it up at the moment, but I believe the fat white bearded Santa in the red suit originally came from a Coca Cola ad.
True story.
Lol, and linking the discussion of Race + Religion and influence of Art, Some Christians have a have time coming to grips with the fact that Jesus (If he existed at all) was not white, He was Middle eastern.
Would you call Jews "white" ?
Benjamin Netanyahu looks pretty white to me.
There's Jews and then there's Jews. Jesus descended from David and all the way back to Adam and the almighty so he was a real Jewboy.
Then are the wannabe Jews, like the Paradesi and European (off whitey) Ashkenazi Jews who think they are white...especially when they play Irish characters in American showsBut we all know what whitey really is don't we
Would you call Jews "white" ?
Benjamin Netanyahu looks pretty white to me.
Jesus descended from David and all the way back to Adam and the almighty.
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We are talking about early Jews from the middle eastern tribes, they would have looked more Arab than white.
Cool story bro, needs more dragons.
(I do realise that the bible does actually contain dragons and unicorns)
They are the ones with the superior culture
There's Jews and then there's Jews. Jesus descended from David and all the way back to Adam and the almighty so he was a real Jewboy.
Then are the wannabe Jews, like the Paradesi and European (off whitey) Ashkenazi Jews who think they are white...especially when they play Irish characters in American showsBut we all know what whitey really is don't we
Would you call Jews "white" ?
Benjamin Netanyahu looks pretty white to me.
Sooo... Asians are White? haha
It does? Dragons and unicorns? No way.
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So, what aspect of Asian culture do you consider superior (I know you were having a joke but I'm prepared to admit that there are some aspects of our secular Anglo culture that may be deficient).
Lol, yep dragons and unicorns, doesn't seem like a historical document when you get to those verses huh, lol
Look at this Christian try and jump through mental hoops to explain the fire breathing dragons, he try's to say what the meant were dinosaurs, his logic still means men walked with dinosaurs, but to get around that he claims the world isn't billions of years old, it's only 6000 - 10,000
[video]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4WiExWRLyuo[/video]
In other videos they claim the unicorns were actually meant to be rhinos, but rhinos have two horns, and are from Africa, not the Middle East, so their logic is agin flawed.
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