B. U. G. S.

In repose to “The C Word, Elizabth wrote,

Don’t forget “A Christmas Carol.” Dickens caught a lot of critical
flak for writing that one. Scrooge — Ebenezer Scrooge — was a
New Englander in Old England.

“‘A Christmas Carol”” came out about the same time that Victoria married
Albert. Albert is significant in the “typical American Christmas” as
this German prince made Christmas fashionable early in the age of
mass media.”

“Most of our Christmas customs here in the U.S. are German, one way or
another.”

Most people hate being contradicted. Elizabeth enjoys it.

Queen Victoria and Albert were married in 1840. “A Christmas Carol” came out in 1860.

America had long since had Christmas. As I said, the Puritans outlawed it, and they wouldn’t have outlawed something that didn’t exist.

Christmas was the old celebration of Winter Solstice when the sun was farthest away from earth. This happens on December 21 or 22, but Constantine made it December 25 because that was the date of the birth of Mithras, and he was a Mithrain.

So Christ got born on December 25. The Emperor said so. Those who objected have not been heard from.

Germanic theology included the Winter Soltice just as Mithraism and other Indo-European religions did.

Erin for Ireland and Iran mean the same thing.

There is a lot in Wodinism about the House Tree and the world tree Ygsdradil that I will not go into here, but the fact is that Christianity adopted all that: “Be all things unto all men.”

American had more German immigrants than it did immigrants from all the British Isles put together.

It doesn’t take a PhD in linguistics to see that “Santa Klaus” is a German name.

So Elizabeth, your specific example has holes in it but our thesis is dead accurate.

Bob’s Blog has lots of holes in its specifics. But that bothers me not the slightest as long as my general theme is accurate.