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- From: dbernard@clesun.Central.Sun.COM (Dave Bernard)
- Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh
- Subject: Re: JESUS IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 17:05:26 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems
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- Bill Anderson writes:
-
- >: 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.
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- More importantly, already-established holiday dates were appropriated
- to directly counter pagan holiday dates.
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- Dave
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