There is nothing "secular" about New Year's Day. It is based on the Gregorian Calendar, named for Pope Gregory. The change from Julian Calendar was made due to the shift in Easter. Motivation for this New Year date was also religious.

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The New Year was shifted 10 days to account for Easter. Why was this particular day chosen? After December 25 for (fake) Jesus's Birthday, they counted forward to when Khatna happens.

"New Year's Day" is about the foreskin. #JesusKhatnaDay

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New Year's Day is actually Jesus' "Feast of Circumcision" secularised into the Calendar.

No surprise, since "secularism" itself largely means secularised European Christianity. We have holidays on Sunday (Church holiday). Tuesday would be "communal."

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You can wish #JesusKhatnaDivas on "New Year's." The bizarre Christian superstitions about the "Holy Prepuce" included the theory by a Christian theologian that it ascended into heaven to become the rings of Saturn. Till it was "found" in Italy. No joke. 😀
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The Indian Constitution actually adopted the Shalivahana Shaka calendar (and also limited English for 10 years). We did not expect the colonial dynasty ruling India to actually implement all this. But what about "cultural nationalist" BJP? @narendramodi

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The Indian calendar is much more scientific that the Gregorian. It predicts the seasons better and is aligned with nature. Who celebrates a "New Year" in the Dead of Winter vs Spring?

Let's come back from superstitions of #JesusKhatnaDivas.

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Are they teaching the Indian calendar in school to children? @DrRPNishank

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Pope Gregory creates an entire Calendar based on Jesus' genitalia. The quest for the Holy Prepuce has literally been a Holy Grail in Christianity. Who exactly has been obsessed with genitalia?

Apparently "Indian RW" per this fact-challenged sepoy. 🤣

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Of course, not only the Calendar, time and its measurement itself is colonial.

"current use of Western time standards was not the result of an election or national leaders signing a treaty. It is a Western preference riding on coattails of colonialism."

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How is that relevant? Per the myth Jesus was Jewish and would be circumcised as a Jewish infant. That is the day Pope Gregory enshrined as the "New Year."

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"Hinduism was one of the world's most easy-going faith traditions, famed for it's non-persecutory history."

I can assure you, it is NOT.

It is neither easy-going, nor non-persecutory. In fact it is the very opposite.

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Which has an ecclesiastical authority, a holy book etc., which Indian religions lacked. In studying "The Hindoo", colonialists prioritized textual sources of knowledge, which is where Brahmins, the priestly caste with a monopoly over education/text come in.

Brahminism was a distinct "religion" (although i don't really want to use the term in this way) that was frankly terrorized of other castes. In fact, the very basis of Brahminism is oppression. Brahmins had scholars who recorded *Brahminical* canon textually.

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