>From: "Juan Buhler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: OT: The tomb of Jesus >Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 13:46:50 -0800 > >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'm not talking about the date he was actually born, which was never unequivocally stated. You're correct that so-called Christianity adopted the date of a pagan holiday. >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 > I was talking in the sense that we use a nomenclature that refers to things as B.C. and A.D, with the implicit recognition that our counting of years, forwards or backwards is based on the year Christ was born. Tom C. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
