Thursday, December 01, 2005
Happy Christmahannakwanzadan
No one is accusing the Jews of sniping a pagan holiday dedicated to a sun god to celebrate their "Festival of Lights" (the least important and only non-biblical feast on the Jewish calendar) even though it coincides periodically with the winter solstice.
No one gets snarky with the adherents to "Kwanzaa" (a holiday imagined up in the 1960s with absolutely no actual ties to any historical African tradition whatsoever) for timing their made-up festival to begin the day after Saturnalia.
Who would dare wrangle with the Muslims over their migrating dates for the holy days of Ramadan even when they happen to fall during the autumnal equinox, All Saints Day, or (allah forbid...) Columbus Day?
Well, then... what's the big stink about Christmas on the 25th?
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No one gets snarky with the adherents to "Kwanzaa" (a holiday imagined up in the 1960s with absolutely no actual ties to any historical African tradition whatsoever) for timing their made-up festival to begin the day after Saturnalia.
Who would dare wrangle with the Muslims over their migrating dates for the holy days of Ramadan even when they happen to fall during the autumnal equinox, All Saints Day, or (allah forbid...) Columbus Day?
Well, then... what's the big stink about Christmas on the 25th?
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Do you really think you have logically demonstrated anything here? There are crucial relevant differences I am sure you did not think your readership would overlook.
First of all, people do complain about kwaanza being a contrived holiday.
Second, having certain holidays occaisonally fall on or near a certain date is entirely different from having a holiday fall on the exact date of a pre-existing festival, every year.
Third- Even if you are right, and these other holidays were also established to absorb other pagan festivals, and it is the case that no one is complaining about this. Someone should "make a stink" about this as well.
-J>
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First of all, people do complain about kwaanza being a contrived holiday.
Second, having certain holidays occaisonally fall on or near a certain date is entirely different from having a holiday fall on the exact date of a pre-existing festival, every year.
Third- Even if you are right, and these other holidays were also established to absorb other pagan festivals, and it is the case that no one is complaining about this. Someone should "make a stink" about this as well.
-J>
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