Who gets more attention/favor on Christmas?

[Christina Anikari]

OK, i guess that makes sense. Various smaller somewhat quirky topics do tend to crop up when people learn history because there are so incredibly many of them and history is nowhere near as structured as many other fields of science and humanities. It just tends to be other types of topics that crop up over here, especially since history study here tends to focus on the 20th century.

Anyway sorry for the off-topicness. On-topic in regards to when Jesus was born there is really a lot more to it than just when he was born. Scholars are also seriously casting doubt on where he was born and on just who his parents were. The modern, scholarly concensus seems to be that he was either born in Nazaret or grew up in Betlehem and that his parents weren't poor, low-status jews. I am not entirely sure why the last is the case, but the first is that there wouldn't have been much reason for his parents to actually travel while his mother was pregnant. The whole story of the great census does not make much sense, not only did it not require people to travel it took place a long time before the year Jesus was supposedly born.

[Gee-chan]

Theres a St Nicholas day? First I've heard of it...must not have crossed the channel from mainland europe. Anyway yeah it would be the santa that the Coca Cola company corrupted that gets the most attention (He should be green! Green I say!!)

[Helel]

OK, i guess that makes sense. Various smaller somewhat quirky topics do tend to crop up when people learn history because there are so incredibly many of them and history is nowhere near as structured as many other fields of science and humanities. It just tends to be other types of topics that crop up over here, especially since history study here tends to focus on the 20th century.

That's odd, since the consensus over here is generally not to give more weight to the study of more modern history (IE, the 20th century). But yeah, I agree. It's a long shot to attempt to even get a broad grasp of world history, which is why there are so many other more focused studies on human history.

Anyways, I'm now going to toss my vote in with the beh-beh Jesus.

[Christina Anikari]

Or blue or purple or in fact red, Tina. There was no unified code for how Santa Claus looked before Coca Cola established their vision. His stature and the size and shape of his beard varied as well.

As for St. Nicholas Day then it might be found in Germany, but i don't know and it certainly hasn't crossed the border and entered Denmark yet, at least i hadn't heard about it until a few years ago in reference to the Netherlands. So there is nothing strange in it not having gone to the UK. Celebrating Christmas on Christmas Eve instead of Christmas Day hasn't either.

[Stellar]

Santa~

I don't particularly care about the corperations, the religions, or the facts surrounding Christmas. I celebrate Christmas for the spirit and childhood wonder. And a big part of those originate from jolly ol' St. Nick.

[Mendi-chan]

Santa, much to my dismay. Though I don't mind a bit of celebration, and welcome the prospect of Santa coming down the chimney to bring gifts, I would personally like to see baby Jesus take a more prominent role in the holiday spirit. I mean, it is the day that they are using to represent Jesus' birth after all.

...Course, the only reason I kinda get bugged about this is when the government or some company tries to take the birth of Jesus out of the holidays. Like a city stating that there should be no nativity scenes on display, or calling the Christmas tree a 'Family tree'.