Explanation: The image is from The Onion, a satirical news site, and is making fun of this kind of political cartoon.
The Romans celebrated SATVRNALIA around this time, a jolly winter holiday in which people exchanged minor gifts and snacks, celebrated together, played silly holiday games, wore outlandish clothing, and in general turned the social order ‘upside-down’ in the name of the liberation represented by the god Saturn, and all people were (theoretically, and by custom, not law) equal for the week, from the highest masters to the lowest slaves.
Obviously, the only politically correct holiday to celebrate in this season is the season of LIBERTY! IO! SATVRNALIA!
“A widely-held theory is that the Church chose December 25th as Jesus Christ’s birthday (Dies Natalis Christi) to appropriate the festival of Sol Invictus’s birthday Dies Natalis Solis Invicti, held on the same date.”
“Constantine decreed Dies Solis (day of the Sun – “Sunday”) – as the Roman day of rest.”
Explanation: The image is from The Onion, a satirical news site, and is making fun of this kind of political cartoon.
The Romans celebrated SATVRNALIA around this time, a jolly winter holiday in which people exchanged minor gifts and snacks, celebrated together, played silly holiday games, wore outlandish clothing, and in general turned the social order ‘upside-down’ in the name of the liberation represented by the god Saturn, and all people were (theoretically, and by custom, not law) equal for the week, from the highest masters to the lowest slaves.
Obviously, the only politically correct holiday to celebrate in this season is the season of LIBERTY! IO! SATVRNALIA!
Sol Invictus – celebrated on December 25
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