Ukraine moves Christmas from January 7 to December 25
Ukraine moves Christmas from January 7 to December 25
The Ukrainian president's proposal to change the date of Orthodox Christmas to December 25 has been approved by its parliament.
I got narrative but isn’t Jan 7 is orthodox thing not Russia/soviet thing. I mean, I don’t care how people celebrate their imaginary friends but it just weird
It's an attempt to align with the West. Most Western countries are protestant/catholic and celebrate on the 25th, so if your goal is to westernize not only politically, but culturally, it's a step towards alienating those who cling to The Old Ways lol
The ROC [Russian Orthodox Church] currently claims exclusive jurisdiction over the Eastern Orthodox Christians, irrespective of their ethnic background, who reside in the former member republics of the Soviet Union, excluding Georgia.
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Orthodox_Church
Politics and religion have always been one and the same: the reason there are two creation myths in Genesis (and many other duplicate tales) is because authors from both Israel and Judea wrote them, often with the aim of elevating their interpretation of Yahweh/El and lowering the importance of the other kingdom. We have Protestantism because an English king got pissy.
This is no different. The Russian church claims dominion over Kiev and they are rejecting that, much moreso than they have in previous years. The ROC is acting as one more arm of the Kremlin and trying to use religion to spread influence.
We have Protestantism because an English king got pissy.
We have Anglicanism because an English king got pissy. Anglicanism is one flavour of Protestantism, and not the first one.
Martin Luther published his Ninety Five Theses in Wittenberg (Germany) in 1517 - the start of the Protestant Reformation. Prussia adopted Lutheranism in 1525, becoming the first Protestant state. Anglicanism and the English Reformation formally emerged with the Reformation Parliament of 1529-36 and split from Rome in 1534.
We have Protestantism because an English king got pissy.
That doesn't sound right. The Reformation was the birth of Protestantism when the priest Martin Luther rejected the then Pope's abuse of power and Catholicism's manufactured distance between god and man with the priesthood in the middle.
I think you're thinking about the pissy English king that rejected Catholicism and created Anglicanism because he wanted to divorce his wife and the Pope wouldn't give him permission.
Jan 7th is because the Church uses an outdated Julian calendar. On that calendar, there are a different number of leap days than the modern one, so the Julian Dec 25th is the Gregorian Jan 7th
If this trend continues, they'll adopt the Latin alphabet by next year.
So I guess we're not going to get Ukranian Christmas here in Canada anymore as a separate thing? I'll lowkey kind if miss it.