Hey, hey, happy holidays, heathens and friends.

This is Katie. Welcome to Not Some Molly Mormon podcast. So I wanted to do a little follow-up

episode, mini-episode. This one might be a little bit longer than the usual minisodes, but

this was a follow-up on our previous Christmas slash holiday episode about the pagan origins of Christmas. I found a really

great article that I just wanted to read to you guys. It's a bit more in depth and I thought

it was well written and really interesting. This is a bit more nerdy than maybe some of you are interested in,

so feel free to just get past this one if you're not interested in this topic. But I think it's

super-duper interesting. I like knowing where these religious traditions come from and all that, all that jazz. So if this is something up your alley,

stick around and let's get into it. Okay, the article is called the Winter Solstice and the Origins

by Milt Timmons.

And I think this is quite an old article, actually.

I think it was actually written in the 1980s, but I still really enjoyed it.

So I'm going to read it to you.

Share it with you guys, you know, right?

Like it, share it.

Okay, here we go. Every December, we experience the greatest media blitz of nonsense and

balderdash outside of a presidential election. Newspapers and broadcasters repeat their

obligatory editorials about the deplorable commercialization of Christmas. They moan that we have seemed to lost the true

meaning of Christmas and perverted it into a pagan holiday and so on. The Pope prays for peace.

Charlie Brown again goes in search of the true meaning of Christmas. Tiny Tim again leads

old Scrooge on the path to righteousness,

and we are treated to the further adventures of Rudolph, the littlest angel, the Grinch,

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