Topic: Happy Christmas

[6pairsofshoes]

... and the fourteenth month of the Klingon one?

   

dweez, I've read selections of Josephus' History of the Jews.  It's a good source that gives some insights into the Roman Empire and related events that often differ from Biblical accounts.  There were multiple religious festivals celebrated throughout the Empire during the winter solstice (Mithraism was especially popular among the grunts in the Roman army).  There were mystery cults of Bacchus and Venus that paralleled aspects later adopted by Christianity and I suspect the Christian liturgical calendar appropriated several of their festivals.

[goldshirt*9]

I always go with the flow of the church placed the majority of their religious holidays on top of pagan
festivals.
so now all the pagans were celebrating the churches beliefs