> > From: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In a message dated 3/1/2007 1:48:48 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > 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 > > > ========= > And they wanted people to forget their pagan practices and switch over. > Easier to do that with an overlay than a completely different date. Also, keep in mind that from about 325 CE, the "christian" religion becomes, and is subsumed into, the state religion of Rome and the church hierarchy is that of pagan Rome, with the Pontifex Maximus and all that baggage.
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