How did The Flintstones celebrate Christmas If it was in BC (Before Christ)?

Question

I know it's a cartoon but just a random question because I'm watching a Flintstones Christmas

Teyfet · Accepted Answer

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.

Yaaten · Accepted Answer

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).

CurlyGirl42 · Accepted Answer

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.

Gwenhwyfar · Accepted Answer

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

wankiam · Answer

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 ;)

Phoenix98 · Answer

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.

Madhatter920 · Answer

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.

Texaskid1 · Answer

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.  This is the answer to your question.

dreamstar72 · Answer

Easy Fred had a dream a couple of weeks before of a saver coming to save the people of Earth in 10,000 years.

Jjpayne · Answer

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 😂

MarkRet · Answer

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.

Zeus_66 · Answer

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.

GoodGuyBreakingBad · Answer

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?

pajamasam · Answer

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.

Jacqp · Answer

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

gothwillow · Answer

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

Massageman · Answer

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.

CaptainSmartass · Answer

Because they're actually celebrating a prehistoric Christmas. Simples...

Wise4myage · Answer

The men gave each other new war clubs and the women exchanged the latest fashions in furs.

Givemore · Answer

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 😱

Jakeofalltrades93 · Answer

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

genericname85 · Answer

Christmas and Santa clause don't really have anything to do with Jesus either xD it's a coca cola invention.

Dave31989 · Answer

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

Devilofangel · Answer

Because they were ahead of their time. ^.'

Ad_Quid_Orator · Answer

Because it's actually a pagan holiday (apparently one with REALLY ancient roots.

Liam_Hayden · Answer

The same way they had cars and spoke English. As you said, it's a cartoon.

Agape93 · Answer

Simple, they didn’t. It was Yule 😏

In_Trance · Answer

Because Christmas is not a Christian holiday it is a pagan holiday

beebella · Answer

The Flintstones invented Christmas.

mrkdvsn · Answer

Maybe they were celebrating the "santa" aspect of it, and not the "Christ" aspect

Jamie05rhs · Answer

Hahahahahaha! Good catch, man!

NorthwestRider · Answer

It was a winter festival

legalboxers · Answer

Hanna Barbara would know

Primrose21 · Answer

Uhm. Bcoz it's a cartoon?

AlienParasite · Answer

Time travelers

JamesRandiDebates · Answer

Obviously they worshipped Jesus Christrock.

SunnyCaliGirl · Answer

I have no idea

User2300 · Answer

Damn bro , you just ruined it for me. lol

SpaceGalaxy · Answer

They must have had a very high IQ

postempestas · Answer

Publicity

kitty71 · Answer

Good question

Fuentes · Answer

Twilight Zone lol

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