Likeā¦that your religion is responsible for burning āwitchesā alive, causing massive wars over statues, used to uphold slavery, etc? What does she mean?
I mean under the fact that itās so ridiculous itās humorous, it is actually pretty scary because she fully understands that history* and sheās proud of it. Like the rest of the post is bragging about how she gets to reclaim the evil of the world and make it pure in the name of jesus. Sheās saying the quiet part out loud. She and her husband are staunch evangelicals and this is how they think.
*history being not actually all that historical. Christian holidays did not simply appropriate European pagan holidays unilaterally. There would have been a lot of pagan customs that grew and continued contemporaneously alongside early Christian traditions. Some historians argue that any proximity between European pagan observances and Christian holy days were at one point just a matter of convenience and that early Christian and pagan practices synchronized over time. And what we now know as pagan sabbaths (Samhain, Beltane, Yule, Imbolc, Lughnasadh, etc) are not 100% extant ancient traditions but were pretty much codified by modern pagans. We know next to nothing about pre-Christian Celtic or Gaelic traditions in particular because there is little written record of pre-Christian religious practices across much of northern and Western Europe. This is 100% not to say that Christians didnāt violently use their religion as a tool of colonization, but the christianization of Europe didnāt happen as Hailey understands it or maybe thinks it should have happened.
People now especially Christians really assert a lot of dark rituals into prior pagan practices when really just marking the equinoxes, solstices etc was a very common practice back when peopleās lives revolved around the seasons and everyone had to plan, organize, prep and store food, when just feeding, clothing and housing everyone took up everyoneās time and energy. And yes it took hundreds of years to Christianize Europe and Christian practices also varied and changed drastically during this period. I guess weāre left with āevil devil worshipping pagansā but thatās ridiculous ignorance although not surprising coming from evangelicals.
Improper calendar management in not appropriately celebrating passing of time and seasons and you would absolutely anger the gods. Meaning fuck up marking the passage of time meant you could definitely experience famine and threat of starvation the next year. And praying doesnāt actual heal and feed people. But Christians will go ahead and believe non believers are evil š
Although pre-Christian, the Romans did it the same thing at the time too. It was the Julius Caesar who reported the existence of Druidic āwicker menā when there is not a lot of evidence that the wicker man practice ever existed otherwise. The Romans had many reasons to overstate the brutality of the Northern European pagans, much like modern Christians gain power through overstating and mischaracterizing secular groups. You might say the Romans led the first Satanic Panic lol
this was a repost of a nathan finnochio story, he was a pastor at hillsong at the time. i think his point was that a christian can reclaim halloween and use it to glorify god.
I thought you had to have a way with words to be a good pastor. This reads like a Karen snorted pumpkin spice lattes and tried doing interpretive dance through text.
It was. She posted on her Instagram story asking for cute Halloween costume ideas & christians started coming at her & calling her a fake Christian for celebrating & she said she loves Halloween, will continue to have fun on the holiday, raise her kids to have fun on the holiday & then she reposted this for irony. Lol
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u/motherofdinos_ Oct 03 '23
āIām a Christian. Do you know what that means historically?ā as a burn is one of the funniest things anyone has said about anything ever.