The Gregorian Calendar was developed to keep track of Easter. Christmas was a much less important holiday at the time of it's adoption than Easter was, or in fact still is, if you pay much attention to Church Dogma. When Jesus was raised from the dead was much more important than when he was born. That's one of the :"reasons" that his birthday could be moved to compete with a Pagan holiday.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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. > > Marnie aka Doe > > <BR><BR><BR>**************************************<BR> AOL now offers free > email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at > http://www.aol.com. > > -- 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
