"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Dan J.S. wrote:

I'm performing a public service.

The reality is, Christmas itself is a canard, a holiday
that only by convention is celebrated on the 25th of December. The date
itself has nothing to do with the man now called Jesus. What you are
celebrating is a holiday created from whole cloth by Constantine the
Great in the fourth century. He picked the same date as an existing
pagan festival.

Jesus, a pious Jewish man, probably would have disdained the holiday
named for him via a name that was not his.




This is so funny! Where did you read this? I love it how people re-write
history all the time.

Read what, Dan? What part of the paragraphs you thought so funny do you
thing are historically inaccurate?


I celebrate Christmas on the 24th anyway.. Christmas eve. .. and it's
symbolic, just like its symbolic you receive body of Christ and his blood at
communion...