Enough! If I read about or hear another benighted teabagger-type grousing about "Christ being the reason for the season," I'm going to blow a gasket! So just treat this as my primal howl against the falsification of the Western Tradition.
One of the most fascinating aspects about pagan antiquity in the West remains its enduring legacy for our modern civilization. Some areas of influence, most notably the political legacy of Roman Law and the Roman “Constitution” which so influenced the Founders of our republic, are well known.
Others are less widely recognized, especially in the realm of religion, where all of the Abrahamic religions, especially Islam and Christianity, have preserved or consciously adopted entire festivals, rituals, and iconographies from the Pagan cultures they ultimately supplanted by force.
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