Comments by "Chompy the Beast" (@chompythebeast) on "Michaelmas - A Holiday We Forgot About | History" video.

  1.  @jameswoodard4304  "It would be impossible to keep a modern business functioning if the calender was as jam packed as it used to be." This is a condemnation of modern business, not of traditional work schedules
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  2. I love the class warfare being waged in the very name of that holiday lol
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  3.  @pedrolmlkzk  Very few modern historians believe the Nativity story to be anything other than spurious. The story doesn't even make sense: Roman citizens were not forced to return to their homes for the census. That would make for a useless census altogether. And there was no Roman census that year (the records still exist). And there is no astronomical evidence of any retrograde planet visible in the sky on the date you mentioned, either. And all of that ignores not only the problem of the season (it makes no sense for the story to happen in the dead of winter as it is told), but also the shifting of the calendars, including from the Julian to Gregorian Calendar, which would mean that the date of December 25th is an entirely different day in the old reckoning. Besides, the truth is, our earliest versions of the Bible do not even include the Nativity story. It was added many decades, even centuries after our earliest gospels. In short, there is no reason to believe that any of it happened, not even according to its own inconsistent internal logic. This stands in contrast to other gospel events like the Crucifixion, which we have good reason to believe did in fact happen. But the Nativity story is as clear a late addition to the tradition as any late addition can be
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  4. Happy Michaelmas, all! Shame the ownership class was so efficient with its tearing apart of working peoples' sacred calendars. Nowadays it's still more common to mock holidays (especially ones not commonly or widely celebrated) as mere "excuses to get out of working" than it is to honor them. The Protestants' pearl-clutching over anything human and their guilt-motivated "work ethic" really screwed things up
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