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Originally Posted by ozthunder
Actually, you should read into the politics of them. Sol Invictus was the first monotheistic deity of the Roman rite, and when Constantine transferred, he allowed the transition from one to another. Stole is harsh; evolved is much more historically accurate.
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evolved?
They took the local holidays and renamed them for themselves in order to convert more people to the religion. After that the church "evolved" the holidays according to whatever beliefs were dominate at the time.
And then we get to the 20th century where the holidays "evolved" again by commercialism.