• Travis Skaalgard@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    Halloween and Thanksgiving are celebrated in most of the anglosphere (though they no longer celebrate thanksgiving in Britain) so this objectively isn’t true. Also, cut the very few Jesus things out of Christmas and you’ve got Yule, which is almost the same festival. There’s very little pagan signficance to the beginning of the Gregorian year.

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        3 years ago

        From the article you sent me:

        The Thanksgiving holiday’s history in North America is rooted in English traditions dating from the Protestant Reformation.

        There is literally a whole section in that article about thanksgiving’s history in England.

        Maybe know something and/or be able to read before being an ass? “Anglosphere” isn’t an uncommon term either.