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America’s Stunning Embrace Of Paganism Signals The End Of This Country As We Know It
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<blockquote data-quote="JSRG" data-source="post: 77638909" data-attributes="member: 418772"><p>This is a popular claim, but is largely lacking support. The first real evidence of any winter solstice celebration among the Romans, as far as I can tell, only comes <em>after</em> we know Christians were celebrating Christmas.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The Jewish holiday <em>Passover</em> is based on the lunar cycle, as it's supposed to fall under a full moon (it falls in the middle of a Hebrew month, which is where the full moon always happens). The Easter calculation is simply based on the Passover calculation (in Greek, Passover and Easter are actually the same word).</p><p></p><p>To pre-emptively answer the question of "wait, why is Passover so different from Easter on same years?" the answer is that the Hebrew calendar right now is running fast due to an error--sort of like how the Julian calendar got offtrack and had to be replaced with the Gregorian Calendar--and sometimes puts Passover a month later than it needs to be. Passover is supposed to be after the spring equinox, and the "leap years" in the Hebrew calendar where an extra month is added prevents it from doing so, but due to the calendar error we see some years, like this year, where the "after the spring equinox" requirement would have been fulfilled without the extra month, but the month gets added anyway due to calendar drift and puts Passover markedly away from Easter's time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JSRG, post: 77638909, member: 418772"] This is a popular claim, but is largely lacking support. The first real evidence of any winter solstice celebration among the Romans, as far as I can tell, only comes [I]after[/I] we know Christians were celebrating Christmas. The Jewish holiday [I]Passover[/I] is based on the lunar cycle, as it's supposed to fall under a full moon (it falls in the middle of a Hebrew month, which is where the full moon always happens). The Easter calculation is simply based on the Passover calculation (in Greek, Passover and Easter are actually the same word). To pre-emptively answer the question of "wait, why is Passover so different from Easter on same years?" the answer is that the Hebrew calendar right now is running fast due to an error--sort of like how the Julian calendar got offtrack and had to be replaced with the Gregorian Calendar--and sometimes puts Passover a month later than it needs to be. Passover is supposed to be after the spring equinox, and the "leap years" in the Hebrew calendar where an extra month is added prevents it from doing so, but due to the calendar error we see some years, like this year, where the "after the spring equinox" requirement would have been fulfilled without the extra month, but the month gets added anyway due to calendar drift and puts Passover markedly away from Easter's time. [/QUOTE]
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