That should be celebration of Easter, I should read these things before I hit send.
P. J. Alling wrote: > 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
