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I can't let that one go because it's just so ironic.
Almost ALL of the holidays, observancies and cerimony, especially on the RC church is based on the pegan rituals at the time. They were adopted intentionally and integrated into Christianity.
Constantine was the first baptized empeor of Rome. He also called the second summit of Christianity at Alexandria and at that time re-wrote huge swaths of the bible, and completely deleted whole sections.
What he was doing was bringing Peganism and Christianity together as one so that the Pegans could get on board with this Christian thing. It worked well until the Prodistant Refermation which split the Pegans and the Catholics again and had been coming since
Constantine and shortly there after when the Bishops in Rome decided that only they could speak to God thus undoing everything that had been promised to the British people (not British at the time) and the northern Franks in exchange for their worship of God
and belief in Christianity and the renouncement of their Pegan beliefs.
Christmas is not on Jesus's birthday, specifically because they wanted to kill the Pegan Solstice holiday so they took the celebrations and forms of the pegan holiday and put it into Christmas and volia!
So I say again.... which is more rational? Science based on observable facts that have built the great world we live in today, or fiction created by a bunch of corrupt men looking to control the known world? (Just read about the Crusades if you want any more
proof as to how corrupt the Church was during the Dark ages and how much revisionism that they engaged in.)
