The Gregorian calendar was primarily developed so that the Catholic Church could keep the calibrators of Easter at the correct time of the year.
Juan Buhler wrote: > 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 > > -- Entropy Seminar: The results of a five yeer studee ntu the sekend lw uf thurmodynamiks aand itz inevibl fxt hon shewb rt nslpn raq liot. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
