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From: esj@ihuxl.UUCP (Natty Dread )
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Subject: Re: Re: Christmas is a Pagan Holiday! (Easter too!)
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Date: Tue, 27-Mar-84 10:06:43 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 27 10:06:43 1984
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Yup.  My understanding is that the Christian priests/missionaries
couldn't quite get the pagans of "Britain" to buy into totally
renouncing the old ways, so they moved a couple celebrations to match
up with the pagan holidays.

Besides, shepherds didn't watch the flocks at night in December.
They watched them in the early Spring during (or is it just after)
lambing to keep the predators away.

I heard on the radio that there exist Roman records of the Crucifixion.
Anybody know what the time frame was from *those* records?

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