So they nailed Christmas pretty accurately then?
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Christmas is just Saturnalia remixed by Coca Cola though.
Every. Single. Other. Kids. Show. From. The. 90s. And. Before. Has. An. Overtly. Christian. Christmas. Special. But Rugrats doesn’t, it must be a conspiracy! It must be war on Christian values! It must be indoctrination of the poor Christian children. Oh God, won’t somebody please think of the children!
Growing up Jewish in the American southeast, Rugrats was literally all I had. Sometimes Christians can just get fucked.
Growing up Jewish in the American southeast, Rugrats was literally all I had. Sometimes Christians can just get fucked.
imagine growing up entirely unaffiliated with anyone’s imaginary friends… in places like louisiana and alabama.
‘which church do you go to?’
none
‘no, honey, where do you go on sunday mornings?’
the kitchen, for cereal.
‘oh lord you must worship the devil himself’
lady, if I don’t believe in your imaginary friend why would I believe in his imaginary enemy?
Don’t have to imagine lol Judaism is my heritage and culture but it’s never been my religion. Not since my family was thrown out of a synagogue for insisting on Palestinian’s rights when I was young. It is scary, being told you don’t have any morals because you don’t believe in eternal damnation. Sort of makes you grateful that person does believe in hell if it’s the only thing keeping him in line. It’s like the old Ricky Gervais bit: “If you don’t believe there is a God to answer to why don’t you go round raping & murdering as much as you want?” “I do, as much as I want, which is not at all.”
It is scary, being told you don’t have any morals because you don’t believe in eternal damnation.
yeah there seems to be a consistent thing in nutbag adults that they love to scare children with their own psychosis-driven fearmongering. as if they’re driven to pass on the infection via shared trauma.
The south is so polarizing for me. I have relatives who live in southern states amd visit often. Compared to northeastern states, everyone down south is soooooooo fucking nice and polite and out going. Yet somehow, on avg, also the dumbest and slowest moving people I’ve ever seen in my life. Never in a rush. Always got this and God that.
Fuck me running tho they got the best fucking cookout food in the world. BBQ, corn bread, Mac and cheese, greens, its all like a coming of age thing. You turn 13 and you either learn your family recipes or get banished north of the Mason Dixon line
I miss the food.
I don’t miss how fucking slow people talk. Like goddamn jimbob I got places to fuckin be.
You posted this 3 times.
The south is so polarizing for me. I have relatives who live in southern states amd visit often. Compared to northeastern states, everyone down south is soooooooo fucking nice and polite and out going. Yet somehow, on avg, also the dumbest and slowest moving people I’ve ever seen in my life. Never in a rush. Always got this and God that.
Fuck me running tho they got the best fucking cookout food in the world. BBQ, corn bread, Mac and cheese, greens, its all like a coming of age thing. You turn 13 and you either learn your family recipes or get banished north of the Mason Dixon line lol.
The south is so polarizing for me. I have relatives who live in southern states amd visit often. Compared to northeastern states, everyone down south is soooooooo fucking nice and polite and out going. Yet somehow, on avg, also the dumbest and slowest moving people I’ve ever seen in my life. Never in a rush. Always got this and God that.
Fuck me running tho they got the best fucking cookout food in the world. BBQ, corn bread, Mac and cheese, greens, its all like a coming of age thing. You turn 13 and you either learn your family recipes or get banished north of the Mason Dixon line lol.
I guess what makes it weird is all of those other religions having a religious episode
Learn how to type.
Where is Rugrats Eid Mubarak special?
Probably because the people who made the show experienced Christmas that exact way for themselves, where for the other holidays they read a book or asked a practicing religious person what it was like.
Probably because Christmas has been commercialized to hell and back in most places.
It started as a borrowed holiday; why not sell it out completely before they’re done with it?
Considering the pagan festival christmas was intended to superscede was one of feasting and excess its kind of nice to see the opressor eaten alive from the inside.
Surprised they did Christmas at all considering the majority of the families in the show were Jewish.
I mean, fuck the christians, they already blather on enough
It would be hard to include all of the traditions co-opted to create Christmas in a half hour kids show.
Which there are none
Where did Christians get the decorating of a tree?
Jeremiah 10:1-5 explicitly condemns it.
It can mean something different to you today, but it is not biblical.
You’d make a good American Evangelical by the way you take the Bible out of context.
Christmas trees started as a German tradition where trees were decorated in September with Eucharist Hosts to represent the Tree of Life in Eden, for celebrating Creationtide. As time went on and the tradition travelled, it eventually was used for Christmas.
You seriously misread that if you think it’s about Christmas trees in anything but maybe an abstract way. It’s about wooden idols. Who tf is chiseling their Christmas trees into shapes? I thought maybe this would be about Asherah poles or something at least kind of similar but this is a pretty obvious passage about idolatry.
Do you honestly think Jesus was born on December 25? And that Santa and all his elves were there?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjxGvyPAY5A
The truth is, Xmas evolved from the Roman holiday Saturnalia…
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Glorious username
Dunno how the date Christmas is celebrated is relevant, or the character surrounding St Nicholas
Jesus was actually born in the summer time. https://people.howstuffworks.com/when-was-jesus-born.htm
Christmas is a pagan holiday to celebrate the winter solstice. Traditional puritans banned Christmas in the 1500. Right around the time they were burning witches
The winter solstice is on the 21st of December, not the 25th. The dating of Christmas has nothing to do with it.
Christmas is the date it is because it is 9 months (human gestation period) after the Feast of the Annunciation (25th of March) which gets it’s date from an old attributed date of Jesus’ death.
In fact, the reason the UK tax date is in March is for the same reason - the new year was the Annunciation. Then 12 days difference due to the Julian/Gregorian shift.
Edit:
Also, the link you provided debunks your own claim-
The popular theory that Christians chose Dec. 25 to co-opt the pagan solstice festival of Sol Invictus is not based on strong evidence but on the margin scribblings of an unnamed Syrian monk in the 12th century.
And once again echoes what I said
After the equinox, the sun “dies” for 3 days, then starts returning (25th). I read it on the internet.
21+3 is 24.
Okay, so how about the elves? The reindeer? The holly and mistletoe? The tree?
Not related to the Christian holiday of Christmas, they’re secular
At least you’re better than most Jesus freaks who try to square the circle and say holly stands for Jesus or something.
So when should they have the secular Christmas special which is the holiday most people celebrate?
Just don’t have it
When was the Kwanzaa episode?
Edit: was released in 2001
Before or after september?
Edit* I know kwanzaa isn’t muslim btw, it just made me think of all the xenophobia that started occurring in 2001
Know your audience.
Jesus versus Santa is not a difficult popularity contest to call.
Rugrats’ animation style is based on the genius Estonian animator, Priit Parn. One of his proteges worked on Rugrats and Argh, Real Monsters.
Hotel E is generally considered a masterpiece and Triangle absolutely hilarious, but all of his work is incredible.
This cracked me up. Like I know the post is framed as a “war on Christian’s” thing but the idea that rugrats tackled these themes is just funny to me.
Passover, hanukkah, and kwanzaa aren’t completely corporatized and shoved down secular peoples’ throats by the people in power. Christians have only themselves to blame if they think secular christmas is an insult.
Hey OP, do you actually think Christians in the US are marginalized, or did you just cross-post that alt-right garbage here by accident?
This is the green text community bud. This is a zoo not a safari.
I am aware. And usually that means crossposting the jokes or making fun of 4channers, not uncritically repeating their dogwhistles.
Just so you’re aware, the phrase “noticing things” or “being a noticer” is 4chan lingo for believing there is a Jewish conspiracy to run the world. That’s why I asked OP to clarify.
Yeah, OP’s post history suggests they’re posting unironically and laughing at the signal boost from people missing the dog whistles. There’s probably a reason they’re banned from !greentext@lemmy.ml.
@nzmaa@lemy.lol is that the case?
is that the case?
no, I like to post greentexts I find on the internet for the same reasons everyone else posts greentexts, for everyone to laugh and ridicule at.
Hey OP, do you actually think Christians in the US are marginalized
no
What was the purpose of posting this then?
In case you aren’t familiar, this place is basically “#Shit4chanSays”. Similar to /c/insanepeoplefacebook or /r/scotiahpeopletwitter
I don’t think posting something moronic implies agreement
Yeah, I’m aware. There can be a fine line between shitposting/#ShitXSays and just amplifying bigotry. The user’s post history doesn’t inspire confidence in that regard, so it’d be useful to get their perspective on why they’re posting.
