I know it's a cartoon but just a random question because I'm watching a Flintstones Christmas
How did The Flintstones celebrate Christmas If it was in BC (Before Christ)?
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The secular answer:
The Flintstones co-opted Christmas for the same reason Christians co-opted communal feast at the winter solstice from Saturnalia & the spectacle of the yule trees from Yuletide - to get more converts, or viewers as the case may be.
A religious answer:
The spirit of Christ has always existed, just as the spirit of God has always existed. The Flintstones were just epiphanied earlier than most; it must have been all those brontosaurus burgers. Meat is brain food you know.
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They're a "modern Stone-Age family", which means that this isn't set in the Stone Age but in a post-apocalyptic world where humanity reverted to living without the conveniences we now take for granted. Civilisation collapsed, but the memory of it lingers on (which is why we see "cars", "televisions" - or facsimiles thereof).
well, that is obviously a mistake xD.. Christmas would not be a thing BC. But there actually was a celebration of the days starting to get longer again on the northern hemisphere around the time we celebrate Christmas waaay before christianity came along.
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If you’re a Christian (as the producers of the show may have been, or at least they thought their audience was): because Jesus Christ is eternal and existed long before His birth
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maybe they celebrated the winter festival shared by pagans and druids on which Christmas was based when it was quite obvious that jesus would have actually been born in June given the position of the stars but ofcourse people and dinosaurs never existed in the same time frame anyway so i wouldn't say the flintstones was historically accurate anyway ;)
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Christmas was originally a pagan holiday that was adopted by Christians and turned into a Christian holiday. Long after Jesus’s birth
Jesus wasn’t actually born on Christmas though and since he was born in the Middle East there wasn’t really a winter season anyway. -
The Flintstones actually takes place in the future. You know how the Jetsons lived above the clouds on top of pillars? Well the Flintstones are the ones who still lived on the ground.
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They built a time machine , traveled to the future , saw that Christmas was awesome. and then went back into the past and introduced Christmas in the stone age.
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Easy Fred had a dream a couple of weeks before of a saver coming to save the people of Earth in 10,000 years.
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It's a good point... I'm assuming God was around... Maybe they were looking at the predictions in scripture for the Messiah, because they actually did fore tell his coming in the old testament so technically they could have been celebrating early 😂
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It's just a cartoon, and it makes no real sense. There are still dinosaurs in The Flintstones, even though dinosaurs went extinct about 70 million years before people and mammoths.
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The Jetsons gave them a machine that could help them see the future when they traveled back in time to see the Flintstones. Also helped that the Flintstones were pagans. So naturally, they converted.
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Hey, that is something to think about, how could the Flintstones celebrate Christmas since that was BC ( Before Christ )? Now, this makes you wonder for sure?
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Maybe it was a "winter solstice harvest celebration" but the Flintstone writing team knew that most of the audience would be kinda confused by that so they just called 9t "Christmas" to keep it simple.
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Oh God... Do you just make flintsones into a religious concept?
Really?
Christmas goes far beyond religion. Family... togetherness. Humanity.. giving sharing... fuck religion Christmas is about another year preserving as a human race together through all the worlds daily bullshit..
Christmas is about who u are and where you are going
Not a day where someone came back to life... jesus... lol -
Hahaha good one
I've read somewhere that the pagans used to celebrate the solstice back in ancient times
In all seriousness tho, they're fictional characters, so I guess anything can happen - 1.2K opinions shared on Entertainment & Arts topic.
This IS a pretend construct for a cartoon series.
Valentine's Day, Easter, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, Boxing Day - NONE of them would be able to be used as fodder for writing the script. - 2.9K opinions shared on Entertainment & Arts topic.
The men gave each other new war clubs and the women exchanged the latest fashions in furs.
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And your an influencer😂😂😂😂😂 fuckin flintstones😂😂😂😂 dam I don't need oxygen to leave you in my dust. Good luck to you and thanks for making the world so interesting 😱
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Because they're actually celebrating a prehistoric Christmas.
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that's what your worried about? what about the TVs, or cars, radios and all those other things that wouldn't appear for thousands of years. also cavemen didn't exist at the same time as dinosaurs so there is another conundrum for you
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Christmas and Santa clause don't really have anything to do with Jesus either xD it's a coca cola invention.
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just like peter can keep "surviving" all the things he does to himself, even though lois keeps telling him not to
it's just a show, and they draw it out like that -
Because they were ahead of their time. ^.'
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