The Great Myths 2: Christmas, Mithras and Paganism
Well, it’s Yuletide and so tis the season to be merry, to buy presents, to queue for ages in airports and to eat too much. It’s also the season when New Atheists fill their social media feeds with smug memes like these: How do they know these things about Mithras and December 25th? Well, they read them in memes on other New Atheists’ Facebook feeds. Though the fact that this idea was given a boost by the delightfully droll…