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

Behind the Bastards

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Introduction

In part one, we learned all about the pagan shit Christmas borrowed from. Today, Garrison explains why medieval Christians had not forgotten their pagan roots. In Gnostic Christianity, everyone can do magic because everyone is Jesus. And unfortunately, Catholics won that debate and it would have been just a shitty day for them.

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