Re: [NTLK] [OT]Messagepad case and memory upgrade

From: Laurent Daudelin (nemesys_at_cox.rr.com)
Date: Tue Apr 02 2002 - 00:05:29 EST

on 01/04/02 20:16, James Elliott at james.elliott_at_newted.org wrote:

>
>> "Michael J. Hu=DFmann" wrote:
>>
>>> Robert Benschop (rbenschop_at_mac.com) wrote:
>>>
>>>> none of the other Christian holidays show
>>>> their pagan roots so badly
>>>
>>> Robert,
>>>
>>> what about Christmas? That's as pagan a holiday as it gets, with no
>>> biblical justification for choosing December 25 whatsoever.
>>
>> I agree. What's the whole Santa/reindeer/sleigh/tree in the living room
>> thing got to do with Jesus?
>> That and I've read that historians actually KNOW that he wasn't born
>> then, and that the holiday was put there to coincide with the winter
>> festivals.
>
> The appearance of the "star" was just Jupiter and Saturn lined up,=20
> which happens every 805 years. With that in mind, he was born in 6=20
> B.C.
[snip!]

born in 6 B.C.? I thought that B.C. meant "Before Christ"? If so, how do
Jesus be born six years before?

-Laurent. 

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