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Merry Mythmas
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John Perkins
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Dec 19, 2003 20:07 PST
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The year in which Christ was supposed to be born is now assumed to be 4 BCE
not 1 CE. At the time of his birth, according to the Bible, there were
shepherds in the fields watching over their flocks by night. "It is a
talmudic tradition that sheep were kept indoors from November to March,
because of cold weather. Only from early spring to late summer did
shepherds stay out with their flocks." (See Karl Kruszelnicki's column
'Mythconceptions' in recent Fairfax Weekender mag.). So 25 December has not
got a lot to do with any birthday of Christ. The earliest time 25 December
was celebrated as Christ's birthday was 336CE.
What happened was Christians took over the cult of Mithras, a Persian god,
whose bithday was 25 December. which was conveniently already a Roman
holiday. The Mithrans holy day of the week was Sunday, instead of the
sabbath, which is Saturday, and they took that over too. (Christians have
been breaking the IVth Commandment every week for 1700 odd years!)
So this year, I'g going to wish everyone a Happy Mythmas! The only question
is should it be spelt Mythmas or Mithmas?
John
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