Tag Archives: christmas
St. Nicholas
From St. Peter’s List.
That Day again
Seems especially bad this year.
Picture behind cut
The plump guy with the white beard
George R.R. Martin Ruins Christmas
Preceded by an exceptionally obnoxious commercial. I felt like killing everybody associated with it, so you could say it fits 🙂
The War Is On Thanksgiving, Not Christmas
Christmas in the kettle
From Stalingrad’s Madonna.
Whose Birthday?
From Whose Christmas Is It Anyway?
….during the last years of paganism, the cult of Sol remained so popular that the Church Fathers could only neutralize its celebration on the [traditional] winter solstice of December 25th by setting the birthday of Christ on that very same day. In other words, they snatched the day and, sooner rather than later, Christ trumped Sol.
This view is now almost universally accepted; but is it true?
A crowded holiday schedule …. 2000 years ago
The Sith who stole Christmas
From Bad Astronomy