From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2016121212031419081-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > Right. But the holiday " Christmas " as celebrated on Dec 25 isn't about   
   > God.  It's the winter solstice. It's about the orbit of the planet and how   
   > that affects seasons.   
      
   It's more like 4 or so days after the winter solstice...which is merely an   
   astronomical event in which the plane of the Earth's equator is inclined to   
   the  plane of its orbit around the sun, the eclilptic, the full 23.5 degrees   
   relative to the  sun which relative to someone at the equator, at noon would   
   appear either 23.5 degrees to the south for the winter solstice, or 23.5   
   degrees to the north for the summer solstice.   
      
   > I thought you'd have known this.  The Romans had this thing, when they   
   > invaded countries, they found it was hard to get the indiginous people to   
   > stop celebrating whatever seasonal rituals they were accustomed too. So,   
   > what the Romans did was, say things like " oh, yeah, we do that day too   
   > ... but we call it .... Festivus .. " or something like that.  Then the   
   > savages could keep hanging mistletoe and bringing dead trees indoors to   
   > decorate.  What does that have to do with Jesus ?  Nada.  It's some old   
   > Druid custom, all wrapped up in a shiny new package and sold as what we   
   > know as Christmas.   
      
   So in other words, the Almighty, despite all His Unlimited might,   
   nonetheless couldn't get anyone to observe His Holy days unless He relied on   
   his sinful pagan creatures? It simply doesn't compute!   
      
   > Old ritual, various names, Christmas being the current one in western   
   > culture. But, even that is rapidly trying to be erased by the athiests, as   
   > they would prefer going back to the earlier pagan basis and names.   
      
   Jim   
      
   I don't buy it one bit.   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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