Slay a Demon, Hang a Stocking: A Young Heretics Christmas Special
Young Heretics
Spencer Klavan
4.9 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
It's that time of the year again: time for some very online doofus to point out that Christmas falls around the same date as the Saturanalia, as if no one figured this out until Reddit was invented. In fact, the date of Christmas is carefully posed against the date of Easter so that the whole liturgical year can emerge out of the "signs and markers" laid down in the heavens from the creation of the world. Chew on that, reddit bros! It's a very Young Heretics Christmas.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey bro, did you know that like the Christmas is actually like bro, it's really a stolen pagan festival and like it was bro the Romans had like the festival of the sun and then the Christians basically just like stole it and made Christmas and like bro. |
| 0:19.7 | Uh, no! Silence pagan! This is the Young Heretics Christmas special, and we will have none of that demonic nonsense here. |
| 0:31.0 | All right, welcome to the long anticipated much awaited |
| 0:36.6 | highly publicized Young Heretics Christmas Special and you know what we're doing |
| 0:42.3 | two Christmas specials here at |
| 0:44.5 | Young Heretics we're gonna do two weeks of Christmas because Christmas lasts for |
| 0:49.2 | 12 days and we haven't even gotten started we're still technically in Advent which is the waiting season the |
| 0:56.2 | liturgical part where we get ready for the coming the Adwentus the arrival |
| 1:00.3 | of the incarnation of God and his Messiah in the person of Jesus Christ. |
| 1:07.0 | But because this is such an important holiday and because it is so rich with history, tradition, insight, wisdom, secret hidden knowledge, |
| 1:18.0 | I need at least two Christmas specials to talk about this stuff so I'm going to do one today and then one next |
| 1:23.7 | week on the 26th while everybody will hopefully be lounging around in a |
| 1:28.7 | food coma playing with their favorite new presents and that's the Feast of St Stephen's Day, the first Christian martyr. |
| 1:35.8 | So I'm going to talk a little bit about what that means next week. |
| 1:38.9 | But this week I wanted to address something that I started to get into last week as I was talking |
| 1:44.7 | about allegorical readings and Christian engagement with pagan mythology and that is |
| 1:49.7 | this incredibly midwit very online I'm so smart actually guy theory that you will |
| 1:57.7 | always see trotted out this time of year and at Easter about how all the Christian holidays and the whole liturgical |
| 2:05.0 | calendar is just a rip-off from the pre-existing pagan festivals of the Roman |
| 2:10.2 | Polytheists and even sometimes the Babylonians or the Assyrians and the near |
| 2:14.7 | Eastern gods and religions and this always comes up this time of year because |
| 2:19.6 | people love to dunk on the Christian church. |
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