On 3/1/07, Tom C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pardon me? Do you seriously think the whole world bases their calendar on a > non-existent person?
I think you have it backwards, Tom. The birth of Jesus is based on the calendar, not the other way around. I suggest you look up solar calendars and sun worshipping. Specifically the festival of Sol Invictus and Mithraism, which actually competed with Christianity in the beginnings. The bottom line is that Christmas coincides with the solstice because this was good to market Christianity to the peoples who were already worshipping and having festivals around those dates. j -- Juan Buhler - http://www.jbuhler.com photoblog: http://photoblog.jbuhler.com a book: http://www.jbuhler.com/book.html -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
