Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Daniel70 Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho Subject: Re: [OT] The dumb and the guilty (Was Re: How many ....) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 20:49:24 +1000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: <199e94ddd32456be8b7d600a5058347b@dizum.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 12:49:20 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c167bfb6667c3f6b964abd5b3dcda866"; logging-data="962375"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19CjlkoHeTlJ1/XUHsPi0xJlXSHDhiKYO8=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.53.18.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:l23jXIOikpmPQmLq7rDBas5efLw= In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2652 The Doctor wrote on 16/4/24 9:30 am: > In article , Hornplayer9599 > wrote: >> On 4/15/2024 08:44, Blueshirt wrote: >>> Hornplayer9599 wrote: >>>> On 4/14/2024 05:38, Daniel65 wrote: >>>> >>>>> YEAH!! Especially considering Christ was born 25th Dec .... >>>>> so those last few days of 1 B.C. WEREN'T anything B.C.!! >>>>> ;-P >>>> >>>> Friendly amendment here. Christ wasn't born on Dec. 25th. >>> >>> You'd be surprised how many 'Christians' don't actually know >>> that! >>> >>>> That's just the day The Church chose to celebrate His birth. >>> >>> Yes, they just made it up as they went along... and ignored the >>> biblical evidence for a spring birth, like the lambs in the >>> field. >> >> No, there was an actual reason behind the date...and The Church >> has acknowledged it for centuries (if fact, I don't think it was >> ever denied). It was chosen to align with the winter solstice, >> when several other pagan(?) celebrations were taking place. The >> rationale being that the non-Christians would see what the >> Christians were doing, and out of curiosity take an interest in >> it...with a possibility of conversions. > > christ was born when shepherds were tending their flocks at night! > > That would be winter! WHAT?? Out in the Cold/Snow?? Don't the shepherds tend their sheep in the Spring/Summer/Autumn?? -- Daniel