(December 11, 2021 at 5:14 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(December 11, 2021 at 5:03 pm)Oldandeasilyconfused Wrote: Don't forget Oliver Cromwell.
Not sure about the Calvinists.
Easter is the most important event on the Xian calendar , but it's Xmas for catholics. I think it's the stuffing oneself into a food coma, getting legless and of course the presents. I really enjoy giving presents. Receiving, not so much these days. I'm very hard to surprise and have more socks and shirts than I can use.
As a child and young man , I could eat tupperware and be just fine. These days I eat much less. Just about everything I like gives me shocking heartburn.
Pretty sure the Xians lifted December 25 from the roman god Deus Sol Invictus. I think it celebrates the winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere. Here in the southern hemisphere it's summer.
Cromwell is known far and wide for completely failing to be an American.
Christians were celebrating the birth of Jesus in late December about a century and a half before Aurelian introduced the festival of Sol Invictus. Everyone seems to get this backwards - a Roman Emperor created a pagan holiday to compete with Christmas, not the other way round.
Boru
Fascinating. Another belief shattered.
I've always thought December 25 is the winter solstice. I've also always thought Jesus was probably born in spring. Have no idea where I learned all that so it might be wrong too.
