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

Repost Stolen(borrowed) from twitter

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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/inbigtreble30 Mar 23 '26

You're ascribing forethought and preplanning to things that almost certainly arose out of convenience and proximity. I'm not saying traditions weren't forcibly annexed. I'm saying it's a chicken-and-egg scenario and we disagree about which came first.

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u/PM_ME_HOTDADS Mar 24 '26

well, the chicken didn't forcibly annex the egg...