On Thursday 26 December 2024 07:33:03 Marvin Jones via tde-users wrote:
On Thu, 26 Dec 2024, Felix Miata via tde-users wrote:
I'm a firm believer His birth was not in
December as much by how the
tradition of celebration on 25 December came about:
"Jesus was most likely not born the 25th of December. He was probably
born in the fall. That was a date that was adopted by the church
because it was the winter solstice and it was already a popular holiday
in the Roman Empire. So the date for the 25th of December was really
adopted from the pagans."
https://www.amazingfacts.org/media-library/media/e/1245/f/6/t/are-christia
n-holidays-really-biblical-
heh... Like always, convenient cultural appropriation
And, now a Most Sincere Happy New Year to all you TDE'rs who follow
the Gregorian calendar. (WARNING! Thread drift!!)
Jonesy
As usual, I seem to have buried my lede. My point was to direct readers to
that Christmas truce in 1914, in the first year of WWI.
The world today (as usual) is in a terrible way, and I was thinking, now
there's a great idea, peace. People ought to try it.
Bill