A lot of you have probably come across social media posts and even news articles that the holiday we know as Christmas is just ripoff of Pagan mythology and traditions. Meagan is joined by Substitute Sister Tyson Kemp to discuss and debunk many of these claims. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, Pandora, iHeartRadio, and more.
You can find Tyson telling wonderful, well-researched spooky and skeptical stories @tysonunkempt on TikTok and Instagram!
To read more about debunking the Pagan origins of Christmas, we recommend you check out blog posts by Spencer McDaniel (https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2019/12/08/just-how-pagan-is-christmas-really/) and Dr. Peter Gainsford (https://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2018/12/concerning-yule.html).
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Here are our sources:
- https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna50284202
- https://bigthink.com/the-past/no-christmas-not-stolen-pagan-festival/
- https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2022/december/who-waged-the-very-first–war-on-christmas–.html#:~:text=In%20fact%2C%20the%20Christian%20celebration,longer%20after%20the%20winter%20solstice.
- https://www.thedailybeast.com/did-christians-really-steal-christmas-from-the-pagans
- https://unherd.com/2020/12/the-myth-of-pagan-christmas/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_syncretism
- https://psmag.com/social-justice/a-brief-history-of-the-christmas-controversy-pagan-roots-secularization-97073
- https://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/calendar/invictus.html
- https://historyforatheists.com/2020/12/pagan-christmas/
- https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2019/12/08/just-how-pagan-is-christmas-really/
- https://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2018/12/concerning-yule.html
- https://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2017/12/christmas-reminder-2017.html
- https://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2015/12/christmas-and-its-supposed-pagan-links.html