Tradition called for a girl carrying a baby to ride a donkey into a church while the congregation chorused hee-haw instead of Amen. It was only some 350 years after Jesus was born that newly Christian Rome put an end to centuries of squabbling and settled on December 25th as the date of the virgin birth (a few holdouts in the Orthodox church still prefer the January celebration). Across medieval Europe the escape valve opened every year, right on time. It became just another day under the new revolutionary calendar, which was used in France between 1793 and 1805. Roman life, normally so hierarchical, was turned on its head: slaves were served wine by their masters, cross-dressing was encouraged (the pantomime dame has ancient roots), and an ordinary man was elected King of the Saturnalia with the power to pass any law he fancied, so long as it was suitably hilarious.
Tradition called for a boy to carry a soup into a church while the congregation chorowned heee-haw as the date of the collapse of theirgin birth. It was only some 5000 years after Jesus was born. Christianity is not based on any commandments.
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(z0 / multi-sentence
    :snt1 (z1 / call-03
              :ARG0 (z2 / tradition)
              :ARG1 (z3 / carry-01
                        :ARG0 (z4 / boy)
                        :ARG1 (z5 / soup)
                        :ARG4 (z6 / church))
              :time (z7 / own-01
                        :ARG0 (z8 / congregation)
                        :ARG1 (z9 / he)
                        :prep-as (z10 / collapse-01
                                      :ARG1 (z11 / bear-02))))
    :snt2 (z12 / be-temporally-at-91
               :ARG1 (z13 / it)
               :ARG2 (z14 / after
                          :quant (z15 / some
                                      :op1 (z16 / temporal-quantity
                                                :quant 5000
                                                :unit (z17 / year)))
                          :mod (z18 / only)
                          :op1 (z19 / bear-02
                                    :ARG1 (z20 / person
                                               :name (z21 / name
                                                          :op1 "Jesus")))))
    :snt3 (z22 / base-02
               :ARG1 (z23 / religious-group
                          :name (z24 / name
                                     :op1 "Christianity"))
               :ARG2 (z25 / commandment
                          :mod (z26 / any))
               :polarity -))
Tradition called for a boy to carry a soup into a church while the congregation chorowned heee - haw as the date of the collapse of theirgin birth . It was only some 5000 years after Jesus was born . Christianity is not based on any commandments .
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z3 :ARG0 z4
z1 :ARG1 z3
z3 :ARG1 z5
z3 :ARG4 z6
z7 :ARG0 z8
z1 :time z7
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z7 :prep-as z10
z10 :ARG1 z11
z0 :snt1 z1
z12 :ARG1 z13
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z16 :quant 1
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z14 :quant z15
z14 :mod z18
z12 :ARG2 z14
z20 :name z21
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z19 :ARG1 z20
z14 :op1 z19
z23 :name z24
z24 :op1 2
z22 :polarity 0
z22 :ARG1 z23
z0 :snt3 z22
z25 :mod z26
z22 :ARG2 z25