>>92043306>what specifically about the religion makes Christmas dinner any more special (or time consuming) than it is for other Christian denominations?The European cultures that hang on to it and didn't move to protestantism are the exact culures that also put a high value in this sort of collective meal traditions with Italians, Portuguese, French, Spanish being the spearhead of Catholicism around the world.
There is a lot of "cross talk" between what comes from religion and what comes from local culture when it comes to Europe, a lot of thing are coincidental like this
>like Protestant countries putting emphasis on "God rewards hard work and punishes laziness" while Catholic countries putting emphasis on "Blessed are the poor" 