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delicatefury · 1 year

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Well. Today I was told that Mardi Gras is pagan. The reason? It’s a spring celebration (?)

Which was followed by Easter being pagan because it moves around. I said that’s because it aligns with how Passover is scheduled and was told that’s because Passover’s scheduling is taken from paganism too (??) (you think the Jewish people built their calendar off of the Greeks/Romans?)

Then told all Catholic holidays are stolen from whatever local pagan tradition because of the Roman emperor (???) (never mind how many were in place before Constantine’s decriminalization of Christianity).

Then told that not eating cloven hoofed animals came from the Muslims (????) (Islam. Which was founded 700 years after Christ and thousands of years after Judaism.)

And of course fish on Friday being because of the Italian fishing industry. Which may hold some merit but still isn’t the whole picture.

And just… there’s so much bad info that’s taken as true because it’s anti-Catholic.

Oh. And humans are a plague on this earth and have no place in the natural order (???????).

Look, I know that a lot of people on this hellsite probably agree with at least some of these, but it was a lot to process in 45 minutes.

#fury's life #catholicism #catholic #religious i guess #rant in tags #I have encountered most of these mistaken beliefs #but I couldn’t figure out a way to challenge them more strongly #without going into an impassioned hour long rant on they’re wrong and the actual reasons for them #and why the church doesn’t count fish as ‘meat’ for fasting #and why fasting is important #and how dare you diminish the suffering of the Exodus #and how sanctification works #and Islam isn’t even 2000 years old!#and Dear Lord there’s only 4 seasons and 365 days a year #of course some things will overlap!#you know what else overlaps? the available plants and animals that are available at those times!#and how the hell does a holiday that came into existence #because it’s the last day before a fast #somehow belong to a faith that doesn’t celebrate said fast?!#I can think of very few holidays that can be MORE explicitly Catholic #than Mardi Gras/Carnivale/Fat Tuesday!#all the places that celebrate it are Catholic!#I’m not even touching the humans are a plague comment #she’s a really helpful assistant #but I am getting so sick and tired of her anti-humanity rants #they don’t even make sense!#sorry #had to get that off my chest

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