yeah he's frantically looking for anything he can point to now, chocolate santa's had record sales this year, that might be it too, spot price is still the same though, i'm going cross eyed from watching it all week, it hasn't moved much at all.
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Watched a documentary yesterday about some Christianity religions/fanatics in the US. I was surprised to hear many of them call Santa Claus as Satan Claus. They said he is a distraction from people supposed to be celebrating Jesus's birthday at this time. btw, I'm not religious and only watched it because it was on when I was visiting relatives.
When Christmas was illegal in (what was to become) the United States. "Puritans were particularly contemptuous of Christmas, nicknaming it "Foolstide" and banning their flock from any celebration of it throughout the 17th and 18th centuries. On the first Dec. 25 the settlers spent in Plymouth Colony, they worked in the fields as they would on any other day. The next year, a group of non-Puritan workmen caught celebrating Christmas with a game of "stoole-ball" an early precursor of baseball were punished by Gov. William Bradford. "My conscience cannot let you play while everybody else is out working," he told them. Why didn't Puritans like Christmas? They had several reasons, including the fact that it did not originate as a Christian holiday. The upper classes in ancient Rome celebrated Dec. 25 as the birthday of the sun god Mithra. The date fell right in the middle of Saturnalia, a monthlong holiday dedicated to food, drink, and revelry, and Pope Julius I is said to have chosen that day to celebrate Christ's birth as a way of co-opting the pagan rituals. Beyond that, the Puritans considered it historically inaccurate to place the Messiah's arrival on Dec. 25. They thought Jesus had been born sometime in September. So their objections were theological? Not exclusively. The main reason Puritans didn't like Christmas was that it was a raucously popular holiday in late medieval England. Each year, rich landowners would throw open their doors to the poor and give them food and drink as an act of charity. The poorest man in the parish was named the "Lord of Misrule," and the rich would wait upon him at feasts that often descended into bawdy drunkenness. Such decadence never impressed religious purists. "Men dishonor Christ more in the 12 days of Christmas," wrote the 16th-century clergyman Hugh Latimer, "than in all the 12 months besides." http://theweek.com/article/index/222676/when-americans-banned-christmas
OK ^^^^^^ "in the middle of Saturnalia, a monthlong holiday dedicated to food, drink, and revelry .... " "Christmas was that it was a raucously popular holiday .... " "feasts that often descended into bawdy drunkenness .... " Works for me !! .
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