Whatever your relevant holiday is, if it happens tonight and tomorrow, then very merry.
And remember — put Mithras back in Christmas!
Daniel H. Nexon is a Professor at Georgetown University, with a joint appointment in the Department of Government and the School of Foreign Service. His academic work focuses on international-relations theory, power politics, empires and hegemony, and international order. He has also written on the relationship between popular culture and world politics.
Chinese food and a Movie.
It is the ancient tradition of my people.
Merry Christmas (or holiday of choice) to one and all/
Some educational reading.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithraic_mysteries
Mithraism and Christianity
The idea of a relationship between
early Christianity and Mithraism is based on a remark by the 2nd century Christian writer Justin Martyr, who accused the Mithraists of diabolically imitating the Christian communion rite.[113] Based upon this, Ernest Renan in 1882 set forth a vivid depiction of two rival religions: “if the growth of Christianity had been arrested by some mortal malady, the world would have been Mithraic,”[114] Edwin M. Yamauchi, a Christian apologist, makes the claim that Renan's work was “published nearly 150 years ago, [and] has no value as a source. He [Renan] knew very little about Mithraism…”[115]
Stop this =sSlander against Mithraism!
https://eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com/
https://eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com/