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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Outraged pagan and "historian" pps seem to think anybody cares that Santa is a fusion of sources, some Christian (the magi bearing gifts, St. Nicholas) and some maybe not (Odin).

Newsflash: WE DON'T CARE. Santa has nothing to do with worship. We know Santa is a myth and, as such, we already accepted his mythicism long ago.

However, all of modern paganism is derived from stealing and drastically modifying earlier pagan religions. That's where you should be directing your ire. [/quote]

Some PPs do care very much. They reject possible non-Christian influences. 
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You're gonna need to cite that. Sure, people have rejected skeezy blog cut and pastes, they've rejected Helios, and they've rejected influences from far-flung Mongolia. [b]But nobody has rejected ALL non-Christian influences. [/b]

As has been said, Christians DON'T CARE. We know Santa is a myth. It's not like Santa is a fundamental article of faith or something.

Meanwhile, you haven't attempted to address modern paganism's pirating of old myths. Care to take a whack at that?[/quote]

Great. Then which non-Christian sources can we all agree were likely inspiration for Santa and other “Christmas” traditions?

When and where did these modern traditions start? Who was behind them? 
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No one can agree on that - it's sort of unknowable, but for academics, a fun thing to research and argue about eternally.  But everyone can easily agree that a good number of traditions have a pre-Christian origin, but those are so very numerous, and the mobility of peoples throughout history never-ending, so that digging up new possibilities for those origins is also a never-ending activity.  You can just Google and get a ton of ideas. There is no one right answer or one source.  [/quote]

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