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Part One: Keep the Yuletide Gay: Saturnalia & the Puritan War on Christmas

Behind the Bastards

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The Fucking Forever Go Times

People kept celebrating their holidays. And the church was left with little choice but to accept those holidays and do the best it could to rebrand them. So Christmas happening around solstice is not a coincidence. But there's another not a coincidence Catholic winter solstice celebration. The Feast of St. Lucia, St. Lucy's Day, especially popular in Scandinavia for some obvious reason, like it's dark there. It happens on December 13th. And it's also the story of mutual aid done at a terrible risk,. Which is why I like it. Also not wanting to marry some asshole you don't like.

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