I just noticed that myself. Wth? It went all day yesterday just fine. The discussions haven’t got out of hand, nobody has flung accusations around, and lots of interesting information shared (albeit it some of it so repetitive I could have bonked a few heads! 
), but nothing wrong with the topic. It’s a topic brought up every. single. year. Nothing new here folks! lol
(PS - ^5 to Joseph Campbell, Margot Adler, Carl Sagan, and the current Pope! 
)
That’s the church just painting a dog with strips and calling it a tiger. not your fault, really.
They did the same for Easter. Which is literally even still named after the goddess of fertility. Many of the rituals and depictions, like celebrating eggs and lambs, carried over from that.
They knew they couldn’t convert everyone, so they started painting the OG holidays to fit their own agenda.
well Jesus was called the Lamb of God… but yeah the egg thing is not really his
100% true, but as I studied more ancient religions I noticed they all borrowed from each other and just put their “twist” on someone else’s belief system. I get it though, there are only so many ideas you can have about ultimate truths.
The number of flood narratives in ancient religions was particularly interesting.
There’d be no lore reason for anything based on Pride Month, though. Being gay, lesbian, bi or whatever has never been stipulated to be an issue to anyone in lore. There is no Pride movement for acceptance/tolerance on Azeroth.
Have you read Joseph Campbell’s books. It’s very interesting how diffferent cultures observed very similar belief systems as humanity grew despite not having contact with each other.
I mean Christmas is based on the religion of money and has been for a long time.
WoW is mostly a western game.
Christmas, while religious in its origin (tho arguably it existed before Christianity), is nowadays a widespread holiday for the whole of the western culture, even for non christians (And WoW focuses on the non-christian aspect of it, like Santa Claus, Reindeers, etc)
So it makes sense for it to exist in WoW.
Other specific religious festivities are more religious in nature. Celebrating them would feel more like a religious thing.
Greed has ruined many things in life.
Not a holiday.
But ya, go pride.
You obviously haven’t studied it very well.
Nah, we’re good.
Some of my characters have Christmas decorations up all year around. Not all of my characters have Garrison level 3 to decorate.
I’m a theistic Satanist, you know… like an actual “devil worshipper” and not the atheist kind, and I still celebrate christmas without the christ part. I even tell people Merry christmas and I’m not offended when they tell it back to me. I’m happy to see that WoW doesn’t inject real world religion into this game.
My main still puts the decor up each year as well.
There is no christ in WoW’s version of christmas. It’s a generic holiday based on the world of Santa. WoW should never inject real world religion.
I can’t agree more with this.
What is your personal definition of holiday?
You may not want to throw around assumptions on this. Seeing as how there is literally no proof of when Christ was born you can’t say September. It’s commonly accepted that it wasn’t in December and widely known it was adopted to be December to help ease pagan converts (forced or otherwise). That doesn’t change the meaning on the celebration now it could be any day, the celebration remains the same. And no it’s not about songs and presents as your later comment suggests, that’s the hallmark meaning not the real meaning
I have not. I’ll have to check him out. Thanks for the recommendation.
You don’t like the naturalistic worship, loa worship, and shamanism in wow? Those all mirror real world religions.
The only thing religious about the “Christmas” Winter Veil is based on is the name. Santa, reindeer, and decorated trees don’t have anything to do with the religious part of Christmas. So, if you can strip all the religion out of Ramadan or Diwali or any other religious holiday and put it into WoW, sure, why not. Would be neat to see more cultures represented.