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The Truth of Jesus' Birthday (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They're so close, yet so far away - when the Gregorian calendar replaced the Julian calendar, they actually did move the start of the year from April 1 (right after the spring equinox) to January 1.

...Everything else they said was about as wrong as it could be, though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Well, they're also right that the historical figure that the biblical Jesus is based on was almost certainly not born in the winter. The holiday seems to have been moved there to be close to the winter soltice holidays to encourage conversion. A Pope apparently pulled the date out of his ass about three centuries after the guy died.