Us Mayans disagree with you, as do the Buddhists, Jews, and Muslims. The historical information actually seems to indicate that JC was born in 32BC. The Causality Police are still investigating.
-graywolf, who sworn he was not going to comment on this thread. So you guys are responsible for my going to hell as forsworn, I will spend eternity there cursing the lot of you <GRIN>. BTW: Scientist types no longer use BC and AD, but PE and CE. -- Joseph Tainter wrote: > 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 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. > > ----- > > Compounding things, Christ was actually born around 6 to 4 B.C. That is, > Christ was born Before Christ. > > This site is interesting: > > http://www.westarinstitute.org/Periodicals/4R_Articles/Dionysius/dionysius.html > > except that Dionysius Exiguus was born in what is now Romania, not Russia. > > Religions take time to evolve a fully-fledged belief system. Moslems, of > course, eschew graven images. Yet 7th century Islamic coins in the Near > East copied Byzantine forms, with many early Islamic coins showing the > emperor holding a cross. > > This must be what the PDML is about. We are an evolving cosmology. So > these posts are not OT after all. > > I may be in Israel in mid April. I'll try to stop by this tomb and get > everyone the definitive answer. > > But I am still trying to figure out how the Swiss Navy fits in. > > Joe > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
