Reply to: We forgot Jesus birthday

[vetran]

O little town of not that Bethlehem

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...Bethlehem.html

Instead, some experts suggest that Jesus would have been born 68 miles (175km) away in the small town of Nazareth.

Some archaeologists even suggest that Jesus could have been born in a second Bethlehem just 4 miles (7km) away from Mary and David's hometown.

Does make sense 175km seems a long way for a population to travel.

[Zigenare]

Wot's wrong with shekels?

Depends whose life story you're paying for!

[DoctorStrangelove]

Wot's wrong with shekels?

[sadkingbilly]

Dinarii, surely?

Aurei, or i won't get out of bed.

[Zigenare]

Dinarii, surely?

I sit corrected.

[NotAllThere]

That also is a fair point - things changed I feel when some chaps worked out they could gain influence and a few dinarius etc.

Dinarii, surely?

[DoctorStrangelove]

now are they late for this year or early for next year?

I seem to recall one of the local small shops being busted for selling easter eggs from the previous year, expired BBE.

[vetran]

It seems the supermarkets know about teh inconcistency

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/a...-born-yet.html

Easter treats appear on supermarket shelves in December - leaving people to joke 'Jesus hasn't even been born yet'

now are they late for this year or early for next year?

[Zigenare]

That's a fair point. I was thinking more about the oral traditions of, say, Aboriginal tribes in Oz, and other groups that have their own origin stories that aren't necessarily written down. There's loads of pagan tales, Norse sagas, Greco-Roman shenanigans that also fall into the "entertaining" camp but still contain something of a message that is designed to convey societal norms and expected behaviours.

That also is a fair point - things changed I feel when some chaps worked out they could gain influence and a few dinarius etc.

[ladymuck]

That sounds rather benign given the effect that organised religions have had and are having, namely being used to manipulate the (kept that way) ignorant masses by the "educated" few. "You don't need to read the holy texts, I shall read them to you" has led to all types of shenanigans through history...

That's a fair point. I was thinking more about the oral traditions of, say, Aboriginal tribes in Oz, and other groups that have their own origin stories that aren't necessarily written down. There's loads of pagan tales, Norse sagas, Greco-Roman shenanigans that also fall into the "entertaining" camp but still contain something of a message that is designed to convey societal norms and expected behaviours.

[DoctorStrangelove]

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[xoggoth]

Thank you NAT. Where's my present???

[NotAllThere]

Who cares about the birth dates of nobodies like that? It's MY birthday today, that's all that matters!

Happy Birthday.

[NotAllThere]

That sounds rather benign given the effect that organised religions have had and are having, namely being used to manipulate the (kept that way) ignorant masses by the "educated" few. "You don't need to read the holy texts, I shall read them to you" has led to all types of shenanigans through history...

And why, e.g. John Wycliffe was executed.

Funny how the church tried to prevent the Bible being in the venacular. And also totalitarian states often try to ban it. And not because of "hate speech". It's almost as if it undermines those clinging on to authority.

[xoggoth]

Who cares about the birth dates of nobodies like that? It's MY birthday today, that's all that matters!