This video demonstrates that Christmas was never a pagan festival. It is not a hijack of the winter solstice celebration, the Roman festival Saturnalia, the memorial of the Mesopotamian god Tammuz, or the festivals of the Roman gods Sol Invictus or Mithras. Alvarez, Jaime. Romanising Oriental Gods: Myth, Salvation and Ethics in the Cults of …
You might have noticed a number of Youtube channels with very similar names, taking an extremely critical view of China; China Insights, China Observer, Spotlight On China, China in Focus, China Uncensored, China Unscripted. It’s almost like all these channels are following some kind of formula, and have a unified agenda. In fact they are …
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Resources for understanding the true history of the Kingdom of Dahomey, and how the historical movie The Woman King whitewashes African slavery. The director’s movie has attempted to defend the movie against charges of historical revisionism, but professional historians have criticized it strongly, and there have been calls for a boycott. Achebe, Nwando. Female Monarchs …
Resources for understanding the rise and fall of Falun Gong, a cult promoted by the Chinese government which ultimately became the government’s enemy, and fights back today with propaganda. Falun Gong emerged in China in 1992 as a qigong practice, and quickly gained widespread support throughout the population, thanks to enthusiastic support from the Chinese …
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Resources for understanding why Halloween is Christian not pagan, and the true history of Halloween. Every year at Halloween we see memes and articles alleging its pagan origin in Samhain, supposedly an ancient Celtic festival. However, this simply isn’t true. Professional historians have long since debunked this claim, which was based on faulty research from …
