The Russian version of Santa occasionally freezes bad people to death.
--- "Mr. WD" <mister.wd at gmail.com> wrote:
\>
> Whoa -- that's a cool tradition. They should bring
> it over to the
> U.S. The typical American Christmas presents a
> weird dilemma for
> secular leftists: On one hand there's the desire not
> to celebrate a
> Christian holiday, but then the commercial, secular
> version is
> arguably way worse. It seems like the solution for
> those of us who
> retain a sentimental attachment to Christmas is to
> embrace those
> aspects of it that are left over from Yule and
> Saturnalia and recover
> the best of the pagan traditions that have been
> suppressed.
>
> IIRC the point of the ancient holidays and festivals
> around the Winter
> Solstice was to celebrate the fact that days were
> going to start
> getting longer; that the sun -- the source of all
> life -- was
> returning to prominence. Nothing wrong with having
> a holiday for
> that.
>
> -WD
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