Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!seismo!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: ipoulin@uavax0.ccit.arizona.edu Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Bigotry? (Re: The Ongoing Inquisition) Message-ID: Date: 23 May 91 00:52:06 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Lines: 17 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article , MNHCC@cunyvm.bitnet writes: > ... Some people say that the date of Christmas was set at > December 25 because it was the near the date of a Roman celebration. > They then go on to draw various erroneous conclusions, such as that > Jesus was never born or that Christmas is a pagan feast. ... Just as an idea as to the _real_ time of the birth of Jesus Christ, look at scripture" "There were sheapherds abiding in the field keeping their flocks by night" The only time, then and now, that sheapherds bring their flocks into the fields at night is during the lambing season in April and May, so as to use the dark of night to protect the young lambs from predatory animals. :) Ian :)