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  2. Christmas controversies - Wikipedia

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    In Nazi Germany, Christmas celebrations were propagandized so as to serve the ideology of the Nazi party, including denial of the Jewish origin of Jesus. [9] The December 1957 News and Views published by the Church League of America, a conservative organization founded in 1937, [78] attacked the use of Xmas in an article titled "X=The Unknown ...

  3. Religious discrimination against modern pagans - Wikipedia

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    Modern pagans are a religious minority in every country where they exist [1] and have been subject to religious discrimination and/or religious persecution. The largest modern pagans communities are in North America and the United Kingdom, and the issue of discrimination receives most attention in those locations, but there are also reports ...

  4. Lord of Misrule - Wikipedia

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    In the early 19th century, the Oxford Movement in the Anglican Church ushered in "the development of richer and more symbolic forms of worship, the building of neo-Gothic churches, and the revival and increasing centrality of the keeping of Christmas itself as a Christian festival" as well as "special charities for the poor" in addition to ...

  5. Persecution of pagans under Theodosius I - Wikipedia

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    The persecution of pagans under Theodosius I began in 381, after the first couple of years of his reign as co-emperor in the eastern part of the Roman Empire.In the 380s, Theodosius I reiterated the ban of Constantine the Great on animal sacrifices, prohibited haruspicy on animal sacrifice, pioneered the criminalization of magistrates who did not enforce anti-pagan laws, broke up some pagan ...

  6. Christmas - Wikipedia

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    [227] [228] Celebrating Christmas is banned in the Jehovah's Witnesses, as the Governing Body believes that Christmas is originally pagan and again that it is without basis in Scripture. [229] Christmas celebrations have also been prohibited by atheist states such as the Soviet Union [ 230 ] and more recently majority Muslim states such as ...

  7. Christo-Paganism - Wikipedia

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    Christo-Pagans may identify as witches, [1] [2] druids, [3] [4] or animists. [5] Most, but not all, worship the Christian God. [1] Some Christo-Pagans may consider the Virgin Mary to be a goddess, or a form of the Goddess. [1] [6] [7] [8] Christo-Pagans typically believe in the divinity of Jesus, and that Christian and neopagan beliefs are not ...

  8. Yule log - Wikipedia

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    Today, this tradition is celebrated by Christians and modern pagans on or around Christmas/Yule. The name by which this tradition goes, as well as when and how the Yule log should be burnt, varies widely with time and place. The first evidence for this tradition originates in 1184 CE as a Christian Christmas eve tradition.

  9. Modern paganism in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The largest modern pagan (also known as neo-pagan) religious movement is Wicca, followed by Neodruidism. Both of these religions or spiritual paths were introduced during the 1950s and 1960s from Great Britain. Germanic Neopaganism (also known as Heathenry) and Kemetism appeared in the US in the early 1970s. Hellenic Neopaganism appeared in the ...