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To: donna

The funny thing is that we all know if we read the Bible when Christmas should be, nine months after Gabriel told Mary she would become pregnant. She was told in late June or early July. That puts Christmas in late March or early April. Roman taxes were paid in spring, just like they are now here. Christmas can be celebrated anytime you want but The son of God was born in the flesh in the spring.


26 posted on 12/22/2012 9:13:55 PM PST by JAKraig (Surely my religion is at least as good as yours)
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To: JAKraig

Gabriel told Mary in December.

Yeshua was born in september.

All the fake pagan ‘gods’ were born December 25.

Catholics love pagan nonsense, and fake Christians like Constantine, who was born on...

December 25!


27 posted on 12/22/2012 9:20:21 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: JAKraig

*** That puts Christmas in late March or early April.***

Actually, if you begin when the father of John the Baptist started his course in the Temple and count you will find that Jesus was most likely born around Sept.

So why have a celebration in Dec? For the same reason we don’t have National Holidays like President’s Day on the actual days but on the weekends.

If you don’t know the real day you can arbitrarily choose a day like Dec 25. I can live with that.


56 posted on 12/23/2012 12:36:53 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (REOPEN THE CLOSED MENTAL INSTITUTIONS! Damn the ACLU!)
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