• captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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    Telling my accountant relative how I heard I should put money into an IRA, and so Seamus says him and the boys are grateful for the aid

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      My landlady is Muslim. She was happy when I wished her a Merry Christmas, and also decorated her house for the holidays.
      It’s not like it really has anything to do with Christianity nowadays.

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        Never really had anything to do with Christianity in the first place either. It’s an old Germanic tradition celebrating the winter solstice. When the insane Yahweh cult took control over Europe they inserted themselves into all of our stories and rituals.

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          Jesus is the most important figure in Islam, and is believed to be the Messiah. But Muslims don’t believe that Jesus was born on December 25th.

          However many Muslim-majority cultures of course celebrate the winter solstice (Yalda Night has Zoroastrian roots).

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            But Muslims don’t believe that Jesus was born on December 25th.

            He wasn’t, not even in december. The church’s selection of december was to coopt the existing saturnalia festival.

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          It depends. Jesus is certainly as important as Mohammed to Muslims and it’s not prohibited to celebrate his birth but some would never participate simply because it’s a Christian tradition. Also the ban of images makes all the customs around Christmas a little tricky. In Turkey for example a lot of Muslims do celebrate but you won’t find nativity scenes or stuff like that there, only images of Noel Baba (“Christmas Dad” = Santa) who is modeled after Saint Nicholas but himself not a religious figure.