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 ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
