Larian is anti-Christian

[rusty_shackleford]

You don't have to be Christian to celebrate Christmas. It was originally a pagan holiday and most of the rituals stem from that.

So why does it matter whether they directly say Christmas or use a more general term? What if they said Merry Yuletide instead, would that not be equally as anti-Christian, if not more so than the original? Isn't this whole thing about the team being anti-christian? I seriously doubt that there was an internal discussion at Larian where they said "don't say Christmas anymore" over the scenario of the person making the post just typing "Happy Holidays" and posting without a thought beyond typos.

"Merry Christmas" invokes fear in the heart of the libtard

[Tweed]

@Irenaeus can you confirm this?

[Roguey]

It was originally a pagan holiday and most of the rituals stem from that.

By the year 221 AD, three Christian writers had independently calculated the date of Jesus’ birth as December 25. Irenaeus, as we have just said, identified the date of his annunciation before the end of the second century. Hippolytus used a different method, but determined December 25 as the date of the Nativity in 202 AD when he wrote his commentary on Daniel 4:23. Finally, Sextus Julius Africanus, in writing his “Chronology of the World” in 221 AD had also calculated December 25.

When people pushing the pagan conspiracy theory argue that December 25 the date of a pagan festival, they build their argument upon observances of that date. But they never bother to explore the series of Christian dates from which December 25 is derived. They never whisper a word of dissent about September 23 (Conception of John the Baptist), March 25 (Annunciation) or June 24 (Nativity of John the Baptist)! The conspiracy theorist’s only complaint is with December 25. When we examine why Christians began observing December 25 as the birthdate of our Lord, the argument that it was first a pagan holiday simply collapses.

But what makes our conspiracy theorist’s job even more difficult is the fact that it was the pagans who plagiarised from the Christians (not the other way round). The scholar Manfred Claus established that Emperor Aurelian established the cult of Dies Natalis Solis Invicti on December 25, 274 AD, and decreed that day as the day of the Winter Solstice celebration. This is more than 50 years after Sextus Julius Africanus established Christ's birthday; 72 years after Hippolytus had done so, and probably at least 100 years after Irenaeus established March 25 as the Annunciation.

The pagans were responding to the rise of the Church and the subsequent collapse in popularity of pagan observances. They were responding to the “competition” provided by the Church by trying to usurp a date revered by Christians.

Perhaps they didn't intentionally do it (though it is really suspicious that the same thing just happened to occur with Easter as well), but all this business about Christmas trees and lights and presents and mistletoe and yule logs has ****-all to do with Jesus. And in turn, Santa is something Christian-turned-secular.

[Mondain]

Christianity is the GPL of religions, it explicitly allows taking non-christian holidays and christianizing them. Idk why people use that as a gotcha.

[Irenaeus]

Christianity is the GPL of religions, it explicitly allows taking non-christian holidays and christianizing them. Idk why people use that as a gotcha.

Redditor logic.

[Slavic Sorcerer]

"Happy holidays" has always meant Christmas+New Year's here.

Kinda same here.
We say "Wesołych Świąt", which is literally translated to "Happy Holidays".
We say that during Christmas, Easter, and any other holidays; christian or not.

We also say "Wesołych Świąt i Szczęśliwego Nowego Roku" to separate Christmas and New Year's Eve.
In December it can be both translated as "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year" or "Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year" but the latter sounds weird IMO.

From my POV, "Happy Holidays" being anti-christian by itself is a stretch too far.
It's the same logic wokies find everything istophobic
Forcing someone to say "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas" because [X] reason is anti-christian.

America is a melting pot, so chances to meet someone of different faith is much higher than in countries that decided to pick their own cotton, just saying

I don't have an issue with people saying "Happy Holidays" if they themselves don't celebrate Christmas, but want to wish someone a good time.
I don't screech like a banshee when someone wishes me "Merry Christmas", and if I know someone celebrates Christmas, I wish them Merry Christmas too.

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If we really want to be picky about whats christian and anti-christian, Christmas in December could be anti-christian, as it's just a pagan celebration converted to Christmas. Jesus was born around summer, after all. We just make pagan celebration dress up as Christian one, like a christmas tree

[rusty_shackleford]

You don't just shift from years of "Merry Christmas" to "Happy Holidays"

Bonus challenge to find game developers that actually use the phrase "Merry Christmas". Most of them will probably be Japanese.

America is a melting pot,

According to a british jew that was a zionist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Zangwill

If they aren't Christians in the first place why would they care what the social media manager puts? Personally, I don't think there's much thought to it beyond flavoring. As "pozzed" as Larian is, it is still mostly straight white nerdy males, who in all likelihood wouldn't have been Christian 20 years prior regardless of ***** commissars.

In the absence of Christianity, we have atheistic libtardism. It's not about the devs being Christian, it's about which of these two they prefer.
Which do you prefer?

[DagothGeas5]

You don't just shift from years of "Merry Christmas" to "Happy Holidays"

Bonus challenge to find game developers that actually use the phrase "Merry Christmas". Most of them will probably be Japanese.

America is a melting pot,

According to a british jew that was a zionist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Zangwill

If they aren't Christians in the first place why would they care what the social media manager puts? Personally, I don't think there's much thought to it beyond flavoring. As "pozzed" as Larian is, it is still mostly straight white nerdy males, who in all likelihood wouldn't have been Christian 20 years prior regardless of ***** commissars.

In the absence of Christianity, we have atheistic libtardism. It's not about the devs being Christian, it's about which of these two they prefer.
Which do you prefer?

To add to this point, they seemingly say "happy holidays" not before the festivities in general start (don't want to post twice, so they make one post to "catch them all" or something), but as Rusty noted in another comment, they SPECIFICALLY post "happy holidays" ON 25th of December, where festivities are already underway, and will most certainly say "happy new year" later, omitting Christmas by dusting it under the rug, hoping "happy holiday" will not only suffice, but be the "inclusive" option. For added, I am currently living in Italy where there is no "happy holidays" that I know of. In recent years, people have REMOVED crucifixes and Jesus AROUND Christmas time because they think it is offensive to keep around for anyone that does not celebrate. They went as far as refer to Jesus as "Coocoo" to not offend, making the, unsure how to translate it, "presepe" (in short, a place with miniatures and moss that recreates the birth of Jesus Christ, where Jesus is absent until after midnight when 25th December starts, where he is placed, as a child, in the crib made of hay in the middle of the attention) be made like usual, but omitting Jesus from ever being added.

[Slavic Sorcerer]

Which do you prefer?

I don't have any preference.
I'd choose "Merry Christmas" only to annoy people, but there is no other meaning behind it.
But 5 years ago I wouldnt give a ****

In my native language, like I explained, both phrases are translated to and means the same.
Every holiday in Poland is Christian by default, even independence day (because faith was a key motivating ingredient to reclaim our country)

All I know is that "Merry Christmas" rattles the mob, wokies hate it, **** hate it, islamists hate it, everyone I don't like hates it.
And companies use "Happy Holidays" to be more dIvErSE aNd ReSpEcTfUl

I mentioned that the US is a melting pot.
To further elaborate, I never lived in a place that experienced absence of strong Christian dominance, or such cacophony of different cultures the US has.
No matter where you live here, youre 15-20min walk from and within an earshot from the nearest Catholic church. We have more churches than hospitals
People detest other faiths, ****, jehova's and muslims in particular. Halloween never have been accepted beyond thematic parties and decorations. Nobody is trick-or-treating, and is frowned upon at best if you do.

The US started as a vastly Christian country, if my understanding of the timeline is correct, but due to "mah freedom" and migration it became everything all at once.
It has Christians of all branches, buddists, islamists, atheists, ****, shintoists, and many many more.

That's, probably, why I don't see the debacle as much anti-christian as Americans do.

Forcing someone to say "Happy Holidays" when they want to say "Merry Christmas"? Yes.
But if they choose to one over another? I don't see it that way, and I understand why companies do so.

Bonus challenge to find game developers that actually use the phrase "Merry Christmas". Most of them will probably be Japanese.

Japs love Christianity for the aesthetic, if to believe the word on the street, so I can see that.
Seen so many anime with Christian symbols, aesthetic, characters etc I choose to belive that's the case.
Not to mention they are more respectful to other people by default.

[rusty_shackleford]

Which do you prefer?

I don't have any preference.
I'd choose "Merry Christmas" only to annoy people, but there is no other meaning behind it.
But 5 years ago I wouldnt give a ****

In my native language, like I explained, both phrases are translated to and means the same.
Every holiday in Poland is Christian by default, even independence day (because faith was a key motivating ingredient to reclaim our country)

All I know is that "Merry Christmas" rattles the mob, wokies hate it, **** hate it, islamists hate it, everyone I don't like hates it.
And companies use "Happy Holidays" to be more dIvErSE aNd ReSpEcTfUl

I mentioned that the US is a melting pot.
To further elaborate, I never lived in a place that experienced absence of strong Christian dominance, or such cacophony of different cultures the US has.
No matter where you live here, youre 15-20min walk from and within an earshot from the nearest Catholic church. We have more churches than hospitals
People detest other faiths, ****, jehova's and muslims in particular. Halloween never have been accepted beyond thematic parties and decorations. Nobody is trick-or-treating, and is frowned upon at best if you do.

The US started as a vastly Christian country, if my understanding of the timeline is correct, but due to "mah freedom" and migration it became everything all at once.
It has Christians of all branches, buddists, islamists, atheists, ****, shintoists, and many many more.

That's, probably, why I don't see the debacle as much anti-christian as Americans do.

Forcing someone to say "Happy Holidays" when they want to say "Merry Christmas"? Yes.
But if they choose to one over another? I don't see it that way, and I understand why companies do so.

Bonus challenge to find game developers that actually use the phrase "Merry Christmas". Most of them will probably be Japanese.

Japs love Christianity for the aesthetic, if to believe the word on the street, so I can see that.
Seen so many anime with Christian symbols, aesthetic, characters etc I choose to belive that's the case.
Not to mention they are more respectful to other people by default.

I'm not reading all that. I just hate libtards.

[Slavic Sorcerer]

I'm not reading all that. I just hate libtards.

How many times do I have to say I'm not a libtard

[Orvas Dren]

All of this is over the goyim branch of Judaism. Reminder that you can be a total libtard and still be Christian. Who do you think is helping illegals immigrate en masse to Europe and America? Sure, the **** do everything they can to push for it, but Christian charities and non-profits do much of the groundwork (only the most fanatical of **** go anywhere near the new goy). Catholic, evangelical, and mainline protestant all do tons to bring in and often convert ******** brown people. You can be a total pacifist, treat all people equally, show mercy to ****, help nigs and proselytize 3rd worlders, and as long you also praise the Jesus version of the Jewish god you would, by all means, be a good if not great Christian. Liberalism after all is just Christian humanism with certain elements removed like going to church on sundays. Even if Larian's social media chair decided to type Merry Christmas instead this year, Larian is still full of libshits, just as they were in 2020.

[Mondain]

All of this is over the goyim branch of Judaism. Reminder that you can be a total libtard and still be Christian. Who do you think is helping illegals immigrate en masse to Europe and America? Sure, the **** do everything they can to push for it, but Christian charities and non-profits do much of the groundwork (only the most fanatical of **** go anywhere near the new goy). Catholic, evangelical, and mainline protestant all do tons to bring in and often convert ******** brown people. You can be a total pacifist, treat all people equally, show mercy to ****, help nigs and proselytize 3rd worlders, and as long you also praise the Jesus version of the Jewish god you would, by all means, be a good if not great Christian. Liberalism after all is just Christian humanism with certain elements removed like going to church on sundays. Even if Larian's social media chair decided to type Merry Christmas instead this year, Larian is still full of libshits, just as they were in 2020.

Merry Christmas, libtard

[Orvas Dren]

All of this is over the goyim branch of Judaism. Reminder that you can be a total libtard and still be Christian. Who do you think is helping illegals immigrate en masse to Europe and America? Sure, the **** do everything they can to push for it, but Christian charities and non-profits do much of the groundwork (only the most fanatical of **** go anywhere near the new goy). Catholic, evangelical, and mainline protestant all do tons to bring in and often convert ******** brown people. You can be a total pacifist, treat all people equally, show mercy to ****, help nigs and proselytize 3rd worlders, and as long you also praise the Jesus version of the Jewish god you would, by all means, be a good if not great Christian. Liberalism after all is just Christian humanism with certain elements removed like going to church on sundays. Even if Larian's social media chair decided to type Merry Christmas instead this year, Larian is still full of libshits, just as they were in 2020.

Merry Christmas, libtard

Merry Christmas, ******

[Orvas Dren]

In the absence of Christianity, we have atheistic libtardism. It's not about the devs being Christian, it's about which of these two they prefer.
Which do you prefer?

Why would I choose either? They both are **** options that lead to the same outcome, a soulless and mutted society. If this is a fantasy land scenario where there are only two options, then I'd pick whichever is whiter/has more people like me, which currently, again, would be neither. If you mean if I would rather have a Bing Crosby Christmas or the modern Hanukwanza then ofc I'd rather have a Bing Crosby Christmas, but that's not really feasible anymore.

[1998]

Japanese devs say 'merry christmas'

Troublemaker devs are Koreans, there are tons of Christians in Korea.

[CrazedGoblin]

Japanese devs say 'merry christmas'

Troublemaker devs are Koreans, there are tons of Christians in Korea.

Yeah South Korea have a large amount of Christians there but majority of them are ****** demasculinized demoralized libetarded by there insane feminist women......The gif is for the "females" aka "******" aka "feds" around these parts.

[aweigh]

Japanese devs say 'merry christmas'

Troublemaker devs are Koreans, there are tons of Christians in Korea.

I pretty much include koreans and chinese when I say "jap devs". It's an unspoken thing, the point is to dunk on white liberal Western devs whom I despise more than anything in this world. I'm racist like that.

[Ryles]

muh folxs who don't celebrate Christmas