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In reply to the discussion: Neil deGrasse Tyson Trolls Christians on Christmas [View all]hunter
(38,309 posts)76. I think Jesus was born on Halloween, after the final grain harvest. Tax collecting time.
That makes His curious post-crucification resurrection in the springtime a lot more fun.
The Christmas Holiday itself was clearly created to appeal to those people at higher altitudes and latitudes who were throwing huge parties just as the days were stating to get longer but people were starting to die from the cold, starvation, and communicable diseases, with dead frozen bodies stacked outside like cord wood until the ground thawed.
Heresy, yes I do know...
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If there is a war on Christmas, ebola may have won it. Or the latest battle, anyway.
merrily
Dec 2014
#51
Go back and follow the conversation, it is very simple, a comment was made and apparently someone
Thinkingabout
Dec 2014
#61
Are you saying you do not understand " If this makes him happy let him go, doesnt take much for some
Thinkingabout
Dec 2014
#69
Very well done Neil, doesnt take much to get idiotic rightwing xtians pissed off LOL
NoJusticeNoPeace
Dec 2014
#4
why'd he use a reckoning that deliberately rejected a scientific advance in the name of the most
MisterP
Dec 2014
#37
The Julian calendar was a version of the Egyptian calendar that had been messed up by a Greek.
merrily
Dec 2014
#56
Tyson uses Lead to explain the age of the Earth. Also he discusses the connection to the worship
DhhD
Dec 2014
#65
I think Jesus was born on Halloween, after the final grain harvest. Tax collecting time.
hunter
Dec 2014
#76