Response to ithinkmyliverhurts (Original post)
Thu Nov 28, 2013, 11:32 PM
nadinbrzezinski (127,955 posts)
30. Well, if you are very religious (and curious about ancient religions)
offering a prayer for the animal that gave his or her life for you to eat is proper. I am talking well before the Age of Bronze here. So I guess your relatives are following pre-Christian mores.
That is what I call irony on steroids.
Hey, idiot know it all. There is no irony at all. I would venture many if not most Christians also understand they have some roots in pre-Christian tradition that live on and were incorporated at the time of initial conversions when Christianity was growing. At some point Priests realized it made more sense to move away from the Muslim-like tradition(that continues) of conversion or death and to allow native peoples to incorporate what were long held CULTURAL traditions into their new Christian ideology. in fact, this is probably what helped Christianity grow as it did. I have relatives with direct ties to Europe who incorporate many of the pagan era(Yule logs, etc) CULTURAL traditions into their holidays. As I said, there is no irony in that were the religious significance changes or falls away, the CULTURAL norm may stay--those are called traditions. It's something your side would work on when it comes to our national symbols where God is invoked. if you followed the tradition of Christians who hold on to cultural norms from pre-Christian tradition, you all would stop stomping about every time God was invoked on money, courtrooms, etc and accept it as a cultural norm and traditional of the country you live in if you find the actual religious overtones too distasteful for you.
The entire discussion here is basically one of don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
I will ponder you this though oh great dumbass who thinks she isn't:
Perhaps I should find irony at the number of those with non Germanic roots who put up a tree at Christmas too.
