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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
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
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Deus Vult!
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