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It's a recurring theme of history Cannoli Send a noteboard - 22/11/2017 01:44:21 PM

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made Christmas better by coopting themes and motifs from pre-Christian rituals that they then combined with Northern European, specifically Germanic, celebration customs. Sounds good to me.

Everything I love about Christmas is essentially secular/Germanic.


European Christian make EVERYTHING better. We're only able to have this correspondence because of what they did when they got their hands on science.

Cannoli
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