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the Act party (right wing) and their leader, David Seymour, drafted a bill called The Treaty Principals Bill, though the party have said they don't support him in making the legislation law. The other parties in parliament are also opposed.

The bill is about Te Tiriti Waitangi (the treaty of Waitangi) which was a document from 1840 between Māori rangatira and the british crown, which stated that Māori were entitled to land and natural resources, and restitution if that right were ever breached. It was poorly translated, and did not effectively communicate the ceding of Māori sovereignty to the british empire. It is also not fully legally binding, and not actually a treaty.

The Treaty Principals Bill aims to make te tiriti apply to all citizens of New Zealand, not just Māori.

Māori people see this as undermining the struggles and rights of the Māori and have been protesting for weeks. Te Pāti Māori (the Māori political party) said that "The tiriti (treaty) and debating the tiriti is something that only belongs with the chiefs of Māori iwi and hapu (tribes) and the Crown."

Our earliest known records of the cited pre-Christian practices were written down by some random Christian monk centuries after the fact, and we genuinely have no idea how accurate this account is, to what extent the apparent similarities with Christian practice are due to the author deliberately or unwittingly putting a Christian spin on it, or indeed, whether they were just making shit up.

The similarities between the two sets of practices have been exaggerated or misrepresented by Christian writers who were bent for prefiguration theology (i.e., the idea that the Bible echoes backwards in time and pre-Christian religious practices were unwittingly imitating future Christian practices).

The similarities between the two sets of practices have been exaggerated or misrepresented by Protestant writers who believe that all Pagan deities are Satan in disguise, so they think that if they can prove that Catholic practices are secretly Pagan in origin, that proves that Catholics are secretly Satanists.

The similarities between the two sets of practices have been exaggerated or misrepresented by overzealous mythographers trying to prove that all mythology and religion throughout all of human history is secretly a single unified monomyth; if it's pre-Victorian, expect shades of prefiguration theology, while if it's post-Victorian, expect a lot of stuff about the Collective Unconscious.

A bunch of 19th Century proto-Fascists were trying to construct a pre-Jewish cultural identity (and considered Christianity to be tainted by association), but didn't want to give up any of the fun rituals, so they made some shit up about how it was still okay to do Christmas because something something Odin, or whatever.

A bunch of early 20th Century Pagan reconstructionists filled in the gaps in their understanding of pre-Christian ritual with culturally Christian assumptions, then turned around and pointed at their own accidentally Christianised reconstructions as evidence that Christian practices are derived from them.

A bunch of late 20th Century self-help manual authors tried to break into the occult bookstore market by uncritically repeating any or all of the above.

[Image description: A soap dispenser with a paper taped on. The paper says, “Please wash hands with soap. Two Hail Mary’s. Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death Amen. One Hail Mary equals twenty seconds total wash time. End description.]