Saturnalia

Keep Saturn in Saturnalia!

Clay Farris Naff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Saturnalia, Jesus, Christina Hendricks, Constantine, Yule, Origins of Christmas, Pope Julius I, Christmas History, Winter Holidays, Christmas Myth, Christmas 2010, Religion News
Clay Farris Naff

I have to admit it. Like millions of other Americans, I've allowed the holidays to decay into a frenzy of shopping, feasting, gift-giving and wassail-soaked merriment. But all is going to change. I have seen the light.

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Dueling Billboards And The Myths of Christmas

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Christmas Billboards, War on Christmas, Christmas Origins, Saturnalia, Christmas Myth, Winter Solstice, History of Christmas, Feast of Annunciation, Birth of Jesus, Christmas Story, Birth of Christ, Religion News
Kenneth C. Davis

The importance of the winter solstice is crucial to understanding not only the date of Christmas but many of the other "myths" of this season.

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Christmas Myths: Why December 25th?

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Jesus Birth, Saturnalia, Christmas, Gospel, Pagans, December 25, Healthy Living News
Kenneth C. Davis

Almost everything we love and cherish about Christmas comes from a time before Christianity. So here's the real first Christmas question: Why all the fuss over December 25?

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A New American Boxing Day Tradition

Justin Callaway | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vacation, Pardon, Foreclosure, Cheney, Saturnalia, Legislative Role-Reversal, Preemptive Pardon, Federal Health Benefits, Boxing Day, Housing Crisis, Bush, Toussie, Plutocracy, Politics News
Justin Callaway

A proposal: members of Congress must find a family in the "final throes" of foreclosure within their electoral base and switch places with them for the remainder of their luxuriously long winter vacations.

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Forty Years Later Still Not One Planet

Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: William Anders, Nasa, Saturn, Karel, Charles Karel Bouley, Earth, Frank Borman, Gay Rights, Saturnalia, James Lovell, Racism, Moon, Apollo 8, Climate Change, Gay Marriage, Holiday Season Commentary, Solar Eclipse, Healthy Living News
Charles Karel Bouley

Maybe it's time we stop looking in our churches, in our White House or on our TV for answers and start remembering that we've got one world. Make the best of it.

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