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Just to prove that even a little research goes a long way, who wants to know the truth about Christmas?

I have known for some time that biblical experts have stated that Jesus was not born on what we now know as Christmas Day and that his exact date of birth is unknown. I even knew that it had been moved to take over from a Pagan festival. But I didn't know the ins and outs of it all. Until now.

First off, why do we celebrate Christmas Day on the 25th December? Because the Romans told us to. The Pagan Sun Festival was December 25th and the birth of Jesus and Christmas as we know it was moved to this date to take over from this Pagan celebration (and remember folks Pagans just worshipped nature, much like the Red Indians, and were only depicted as Satanists by Christianity in order to undermine them). It was Pope Julius I that first announced that the official bithdate of Jesus Christ would be 25th December around 320AD. 5 years later Constantine The Great (the first Christian Roman Emporer) introduced Christmas as an immovable feast on 25th December. It wasn't until 354AD that Bishop Liberius of Rome ordered his members to celebrate the birth of Jesus on 25th December.

So when was he actaully born? If we take the Bible as a trusted record of the event, then based on what is written in that, astrological records, and modern science we should be celebrating his birthday in March, the exact date is hard to pin down, most experts estimate the first week of the month. For example, the Bible clearly states that shepherds were watching over their flock of sheep in fields when he was born, yet in those parts at that time shepherds had their sheep in fields only from March to October, never in winter due to snow being common (the middle east can get really cold in winter especially at night).

The year in which he is considered to have been born is also wrong. Jesus wasn't born in 0AD (for a start we go from 1BC to 1AD, there is no year zero). In 525AD Pope John I commissioned the scholar Dionysius Exiguus to establish a feast calendar for the Church. Dionysius also estimated the year of Christ's birth based upon the founding of the city of Rome. Unfortunately because of insufficient historical data he arrived at a date at least a few years later than the actual event.

The Gospels record Jesus' birth as occurring during the reign of Herod the Great. Herod's death is recorded by Jewish historian Flavius Josephus and occurred in the spring of 4 B.C. Therefore, Christ's birth had to take place at least four years before the traditional date.

The wise men (of whom no actual numerical amount of them was recorded in the bible, it was later considered as 3 to coincide with the amout of gifts left) were actually astrologers (probably from Persia or southern Arabia) following a star which we now know was a comet (thanks to information in the astrological annuals kept by the Chinese at the time which were much more detailed than those of the Middle East). Which exact comet it was we don't know but on the evidence at hand there are three suggestions - one in 6BC, one in 5BC and one in 4BC, with other astrological evidence in the Bible pointing to events that happened in 6BC.

So there you have it. Most of the world consider Jesus to be born on 25th December 0AD (a date that does not exist so can't be right) when in reality they'd be better off using 1st March 6BC as the date.

Yet more proof, as if it was needed, that Christmas is an utter sham. But that's the problem with religion, it's all man made and was created by the few to opress the many. Mind control of the highest order. Organised religion is just a cult on a bigger budget.