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- From: libwca@emory.edu (Bill Anderson)
- Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh
- Subject: Re: JESUS IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON
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- Date: 26 Dec 92 15:28:19 GMT
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- dbernard@clesun.Central.Sun.COM (Dave Bernard) writes:
- : Lost Boy writes:
- :
- : >Hey, we all *know* what the reason for the season is. It's YULE! It just
- : >happened that when Christianity came in, the Church decided to make Yule a
- : >Chritian holiday by saying that Jesus was born then. Rumor has it that
- : J>esus was actually born during the spring.
- :
- : Actually, no one knows exactly when Jesus was born, but most scholars favor
- : the springtime. Since in the days when the celebration was set no one knew
- : the actual birthday, they appropriated some handy holiday season- Yule, Saturnalia,
- : Winter Solstice. Note that the Church did not decide to make Yule a Christian
- : holiday at all; merely the actual day was appropriated to celebrate a Christian,
- : not a pagan, feast.
- :
- : Dave
-
- In a way, they did decide just that- many Christian holidays and
- feast days overlap with pagan festivals, and this was done
- deliberately in a lot of cases. The idea was to sort of ease
- the newly converted into the thing.
-
- Bill
-