Someone on my Facebook posted a rather profound article about how the arguments between “Merry Christmas” and “Happy Holidays” are misguided.
The article points out the fact that our Christmas traditions have well-documented roots back to a pagan time, long ago, when people came together for a festival during the longest night of the year to acknowledge that many of them would not survive the coming winter and yet, they would eat, drink and celebrate to acknowledge the life that they did have. And though that tradition stretches back to pagan times, hundreds of years ago, it’s also not more than 100 years ago when many of our grandparents and great-grandparents had to face this reality as well.
And yet, humanity found a way to embrace the darkness, to acknowledge and to celebrate it.
These celebrations went by many names over the millennia, and everyone did it their own way. But deep down, I think the message was always the same: “We made it through another year, some of us won’t see spring, let’s spend a few days reminding each other of what’s good about humanity.
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