Re: Why is Christmas near the winter solstice?

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From: Veni Vidivici
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 14:40

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Lora wrote:
> <tholen@ifa.hawaii.edu> wrote in message
> news:1167652054.408096.70500@42g2000cwt.googlegroups.com...
> > Dante Alighieri writes:
> >
> > > A year approximates 365.2421999 calendar days.
> >
> > A tropical year.  The sidereal year and anomalistic years differ from
> > the above figure.
> >
>
> Hauoli Makahiki Hou :-)

Xmas is a corruption of ancient rites of the solstice, plus a few other
antedating religions, like the death and rebirth of the phoenix, and
the myth of the Caesars as demi-gods who were conceived by mortal
virgins raped by pagan gods.

Don't you just love xianity?  It is so strong here in the USA that it
smugly violates the Establishment Clause by corrupting our coinage and
our patriotic pledge with sacerdotal whizbangs.  It gets in bed with
and corrupts our national and state leaders, puts its icons everywhere
ad nauseam, believes it shouldn't have to pay taxes, builds ugly
castles called churches for its opulent luxuries and fat ministers, and
even prevents guides in the Grand Canyon National Park from expressing
the geological age of the canyon, lest some fundy be challenged in his
illusion that the world is 6,000 years old.

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