Whatever your relevant holiday is, if it happens tonight and tomorrow, then very merry.
And remember — put Mithras back in Christmas!
The Duck of Minerva
Merry Christmas! Happy Yule!
by Dan Nexon
25 December 2010, 0427 EST
Daniel H. Nexon is a Professor at Georgetown University, with a joint appointment in the Department of Government and the School of Foreign Service. His academic work focuses on international-relations theory, power politics, empires and hegemony, and international order. He has also written on the relationship between popular culture and world politics.
He has held fellowships at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation and at the Ohio State University's Mershon Center for International Studies. During 2009-2010 he worked in the U.S. Department of Defense as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow. He was the lead editor of International Studies Quarterly from 2014-2018.
He is the author of The Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe: Religious Conflict, Dynastic Empires, and International Change (Princeton University Press, 2009), which won the International Security Studies Section (ISSS) Best Book Award for 2010, and co-author of Exit from Hegemony: The Unraveling of the American Global Order (Oxford University Press, 2020). His articles have appeared in a lot of places. He is the founder of the The Duck of Minerva, and also blogs at Lawyers, Guns and Money.
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Chinese food and a Movie.
It is the ancient tradition of my people.
Merry Christmas (or holiday of choice) to one and all/
　
Some educational reading.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithraic_mysteries
　
Mithraism and Christianity
The idea of a relationship between
early Christianity and Mithraism is based on a remark by the 2nd century Christian writer Justin Martyr, who accused the Mithraists of diabolically imitating the Christian communion rite.[113] Based upon this, Ernest Renan in 1882 set forth a vivid depiction of two rival religions: “if the growth of Christianity had been arrested by some mortal malady, the world would have been Mithraic,”[114] Edwin M. Yamauchi, a Christian apologist, makes the claim that Renan's work was “published nearly 150 years ago, [and] has no value as a source. He [Renan] knew very little about Mithraism…”[115]
Stop this =sSlander against Mithraism!
https://eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com/
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