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sandensea

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41. Hear, hear.

Thu Dec 24, 2020, 11:18 PM

Dec 2020

Who knows when, exactly, Christ was really born.

As you know, the date is simply a holdover from the Pagan Winter Solstice festivities.

Jesus' purported life story (his greatness as an activist and philosopher notwithstanding), a retelling of the Osiris myth.

Biblical scholars themselves agree that December would've been a most unlikely date given the presence of shepherds at the time (suggesting Spring) or the "Star of Bethlehem" - almost certainly a Jupiter/Saturn conjunction whose closest occurrence, astronomers tell us, would have been in October, 7 BC.

In short, no one knows - not clergy, and certainly not televangelists.

So, yes: A Very Happy Festivus to you and yours too, dupagelib.

And a Happy New Year.

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