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1 posted on 12/10/2008 10:51:10 AM PST by Between the Lines
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Keep it at Dec. 25, but the odds he was actually born on Dec. 25 are slim-to-none


2 posted on 12/10/2008 10:52:04 AM PST by mrclean5
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Every year this comes up. Most Christians know that Jesus was not born on December 25th. Christianity took over a pagan holiday that was celebrated on the 25th. in order to bury that pagan god ....


4 posted on 12/10/2008 10:55:07 AM PST by SkyDancer ("Talent Without Ambition Is Sad, Ambition Without Talent Is Worse")
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I have never seen anyone obsess over insisting that Jesus was born on Dec 25, yet otherwise intelligent people waste tons of time and effort "proving" that he was born on another date.

Most Christians choose to celebrate his birth on Dec 25, regardless on exactly what date He was born. That's not all that complicated, whatever the reason.

7 posted on 12/10/2008 10:59:32 AM PST by Publius6961 (Change is not a plan; Hope is not a strategy.)
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I’ve followed mundane astrology for years, and the credible case for Jesus’ date of birth is under the sign of Virgo, likely in September. There was a grand conjunction involving the star Regulus (king) in Leo, transiting into Virgo. The Bible can be interpreted as containing symbology of such. The Magi knew it, since they were themselves astrologers. The Lion of Judah, king of the Jews, born of a virgin.


9 posted on 12/10/2008 11:00:39 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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Lemme guess — the same “scientists” who came to a consensus that “global warming” is caused by man?


10 posted on 12/10/2008 11:02:21 AM PST by ScottinVA (islam IS the problem!)
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I was wondering what the scientists were going to do after they finished analyzing The Book of Judas...
11 posted on 12/10/2008 11:07:50 AM PST by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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well, wouldn’t He have to have been born AFTER June 17, if the wise men told Herod, “Where is the King of the Jews, for we have seen his star in the East?” See Matt. 2:1-7.


12 posted on 12/10/2008 11:10:03 AM PST by Battle of Tours
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Does anyone know when his parents consummated?


17 posted on 12/10/2008 11:25:38 AM PST by mrclean5
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The early Church tried to co-opt Pagan holidays to make it easier to assimilate pagans. The Celts and Germans celebrated the Yule Solstice. The Romans had a two week drunk called Saturnalia. Hence, Christmas is in December.

Interestingly they failed by having All Saints Day on 1 Nov. Samhaine morphed intop Halloween. And it’s still with us today.


18 posted on 12/10/2008 11:26:48 AM PST by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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Well, I dunno. Santa is gonna have one heckuva tough time towing his sleigh in June.


20 posted on 12/10/2008 11:28:11 AM PST by Billthedrill
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Juneteenth?!

;o)


21 posted on 12/10/2008 11:28:53 AM PST by maggief
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Simple. Keep Christmas in your heart all year long.

Happy Christmas everyone.


25 posted on 12/10/2008 11:32:41 AM PST by alarm rider (Conservatives win elections, Republicans lose them...)
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Somebody help me out here. If you follow a star that is in the east, don’t you have to turn around after the star passes overhead and go west until it sets. Wouldn’t that make your net progress westward for any star not on the eastern horizen at sunset? For a star on the eastern horizon, wouldn’t your progress actually be south if you are in the northern hemisphere?


26 posted on 12/10/2008 11:34:54 AM PST by Bertram3 (Perpetually puzzled)
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Mel Torme wrote the Christmas Song (Chestnuts roasting on an open fire) in June.


35 posted on 12/10/2008 12:22:05 PM PST by Rightly Biased (McCain is the reason Sarah Lost <><)
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NO, NO!

Please don’t change it ... MY birthday is June 16th and we all know what people who have birthdays around Christmas can expect.

NOTHING!


42 posted on 12/10/2008 1:02:26 PM PST by Let's Roll (Stop paying ACORN to destroy America! Cut off their government funding!)
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Ah.. I always love it when scientist do religion.


45 posted on 12/10/2008 1:43:27 PM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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“which the Bible states three wise men followed to find Jesus”

Not to be nit-picky, but the Bible does not state this.


46 posted on 12/10/2008 6:32:22 PM PST by Hambone02
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Self Ping


57 posted on 12/13/2008 12:25:15 PM PST by Hieronymus
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‘Jesus was born in June’, astronomers claim
telegraph.co.uk | December 9, 2008
Posted on 12/09/2008 11:28:16 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2145642/posts


58 posted on 12/22/2008 2:12:30 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile finally updated Saturday, December 6, 2008 !!!)
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It doesn’t matter on wit what day Jesus the Christ was born.

But it does matter what day you were born again in faith that HE is the way the truth and the life.


59 posted on 12/22/2008 2:16:51 PM PST by allmendream (Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be redistributed?)
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