11 Jan
2018
11 Jan
'18
5:48 a.m.
On Wed, 10 Jan 2018, Andy Kosela wrote:
Christians also do not know the _exact_ year when
Jesus was born, but
they arbitrary chose the date as the start of their Epoch.
Not really arbitrary; the dates were chosen to hijack pagan festivals, so
we have Christmas at Yuletide, Easter at the Spring fertility rites, etc.
No way the big JC could've been born in the middle of winter in that part
of the world; try about 4BC (Halley's comet) around Spring in March or so.
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."