Dallas (Join Something IRL) on Nostr: npub1te7xd…w3dzs It's easy to forget because it's so deeply baked into our culture ...
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It's easy to forget because it's so deeply baked into our culture today, but the modern celebration of Christmas is really recent. In fact, many Protestant christian denominations (including the branch I was raised in) didn't recognize Christmas at all, and actively preached against the traditional Christian calendar, until the mid-20th century. (Think about it this way, most traditional "Christmas Carols" kids learn and sing at school Christmas concerts are still well within their copyright periods.)
The thing we call #Christmas today was really invented in the late 1800s and wouldn't be recognizable at all to any Christian in the 1700s or earlier.
It's easy to forget because it's so deeply baked into our culture today, but the modern celebration of Christmas is really recent. In fact, many Protestant christian denominations (including the branch I was raised in) didn't recognize Christmas at all, and actively preached against the traditional Christian calendar, until the mid-20th century. (Think about it this way, most traditional "Christmas Carols" kids learn and sing at school Christmas concerts are still well within their copyright periods.)
The thing we call #Christmas today was really invented in the late 1800s and wouldn't be recognizable at all to any Christian in the 1700s or earlier.