28 Apr 10 18:10, Roger Nelson wrote to TOM WALKER:


 TW>> RN>'Twas a pagan ceremony.  (-:

 TW>> And was adapted by the Christains to make inroads in Europe.

 RN> I have a different opinion.

[May Day]

The earliest May Day celebrations appeared in pre-Christian times, with
the festival of Flora, the Roman Goddess of flowers, and the Walpurgis
Night celebrations of the Germanic countries.

 TW>> Even the Christian Christmas Winter Holiday was a pagan ritual
 TW>> adapted by Christianity for the same reasons. It is Obvious from the
 TW>> evidence Christ was NOT born in the Fall but in the Spring.

 RN> What evidence?

For one thing, from the bible description of the era. The shepards were in
the fields with their flocks, means that it was either spring or summer.
If it were in December, they and their flocks wouldn't be in the cold,
cold fields. Of course, one has to believe the bible only is one is a
christian.


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