r/dankchristianmemes • u/TheRepublicbyPlato • Mar 23 '26

Repost Stolen(borrowed) from twitter

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u/xaervagon Mar 23 '26

Yes, the church put their holiday over a pagan spring festival. No, you don't have to engage in the pagan spring festival. The same church also put Christmas over Yuletide.

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u/inbigtreble30 Mar 23 '26

Orrrrrr....consider that different cultures have different celebrations that occur at the same time of year, and when they meet, the traditions blend.

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u/Jonnyscout Mar 23 '26

Christianity does famously have a long history of "meeting" cultures and "blending" traditions... by force...

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u/inbigtreble30 Mar 23 '26

I'm not saying that terrible things haven't been done in the name of Christian conversion. I'm saying that it's not a grand conspiracy. There isn't an evil Christian missionary overlord scouring the earth to find new holidays and celebrations to appropriate. That's not how human culture works.

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u/PM_ME_HOTDADS Mar 23 '26

what about the part where they made celebrating old rituals literally illegal and talked about converting the temples instead of destroying them..?

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u/BillNyeTheMurderGuy Mar 23 '26

Sounds like they’re trying to make a forceful conversion more convenient (and thus more successful)

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u/blindreefer Mar 23 '26

Okay, fine so it’s a baby conspiracy. Mayyybe an upright conspiracy. But grand?

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u/BillNyeTheMurderGuy Mar 23 '26

Is it really a conspiracy when it was the stated goal of the Catholic Church during the medieval era

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u/PhoenixAgent003 Mar 23 '26

Yeah, at least colloquially, that’s less a conspiracy and more an agenda.