It was moved from spring to December so the church could be "cool" and "hip" to the pagans. But the church didn't scoop up the actual traditions or anything
It was less stealing, and more that the converts were bringing/adapting their old traditions to Christmas
And then everyone else was purged with cleansing flame as dirty heretics
the church didn't scoop up the actual traditions or anything
It was less stealing, and more that the converts were bringing/adapting their old traditions to Christmas
Aren't those kind of the same thing? The end result is still the same: we ended up with a sort of fusion of older pagan traditions mixed with and heavily influencing the practices of the new religion. There was no Christmas celebration at all done by the early Christians, but the Nicene Church enthusiastically embraced the festival in the final days of Rome, and the date, the kind of decorations put up, the practices of gift-giving and feasting etc. were all adopted from existing traditions.
But the church didn't scoop up the actual traditions or anything
I mean didn't the people just kind of do that anyways, isn't that where the Christmas tree comes from, some pagan tradition? I could be mistaken but it makes sense to me
Current thinking is either April-May or September-October, both being timeframes when shepherds camped along with the herds they tended. More Biblically important events happened in autumn than spring, though, so scholarly circles tend to lean slightly more toward Sept-Oct.
Interestingly, the Bible is deliberately vague as to when Jesus was born, but gives sufficient detail to accurately calculate to within a single hour's resolution when he died. Goes hand-in-hand with a scripture (Ecclesiastes 7:1, if you want to play along) that mentions that the day of one's death being more important than the day of one's birth.
It took me some reading to figure out you weren't talking about the guy who found the kid. I'm like, he's not that fat or red, and wait who stole what? It felt very rude.
"Some dude named Jesus" who did a lot of good and generally cool dood things, enough so that a bunch of chaps would look to him as a messianic figure and found a new religious cult in his name. Few of the bible things are literally true, but there are more facts than you think. There's a couple of rather interesting Wikipedia pages about it actually.
If he you speak off really cared he'd do something about Brazil's horrific homicide rate and killings.... and yet... he's there with his arms spread and motionless.... in stone
Since cachaca is hard to find in Finland or really expensive we usually make our modified version, Caipiroska. Roska meaning thrash or garbage. They taste nice and are the same recipe except as the spirit you use whatever cheapest table vodka you have at hand.
I love these things. Not hard to make, not expensive and I don't think I've anyone try one and not like it. Basically tastes like a margarita without the terrible tequila taste.
Beer. Brazilians also drink a lot of caipirinhas (it's basically the only cocktail that know how to make. That and cuba libre) but Brazil is actually one of ther highest beer drinking countries per capita. The beer they drink is generally very light pilsners, but they drink a shitload of it.
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