well, he is right about december. jesus wasnt born then, church officials way back when just took over a pagan holiday.
cant support the rest of that nonsense tho.
http://cranach.worldmagblog.com/cranach/archives/2005/12/why_december_25.html
I can not verify it’s claims, but it is interesting...
Actually, some theorize that it may have been just the opposite. Depends on whether Constantine or Julian the Apostate officially instituted the "Natale Solis Invictus," December 25th.
Julian's Calendar of 354 institutes a festival "N(atalis) Invicti" listed for 25 Dec. with 30 chariot races. The difficulty is that both Julian and the Calendar post-date the celebration of Christmas on this date in Rome. What we need to see, is data that clarifies whether this was a pagan reaction to Christmas (i.e. Julian trying to coopt an established Christian celebration) or vice-versa.
Others argue "of course the pagans celebrated it first, because it's the winter solstice and they *must* have celebrated it," but there's no incontrovertible written proof either way.
The bible doesn't say Jesus was born in December, so I wasn't refering to that.
Prove it.
While I agree, I think, with the assignment of the date, I disagree, I think, with the assertion that Jesus wasn't born on that date. There is just as much chance he was born on December 25th as any other day in the year.
The denigration of the tradition of "The Three Kings" is, of course, what you get when you put atheists and/or perverts in positions of authority over religious congregations. There are no eye witnesses to the nativity extant. I don't know if they were kings. I'm not entirely positive it would have made sense in that era for three kings to get together for such a journey. I don't think it matters.
In my family tradition they were three wise men.
It is hard to believe that the Anglican Church is losing adherents so fast that churches are imploding in the vacuum left behind. I know I'd want to attend where the the grand puppeteer tells me my church is the one for idiots. Yikes!