Thursday, December 30, 2010

Calendar of the Caesars

By the time of the conversion of Constantine to Christianity, the basic elements of the modern “civil calendar” were already in place. These included:



(1) The notion that the reign of Augustus marked the start of a new era, a “Golden Age” fundamentally different from everything that had gone before. This notion provided the basis for the subsequent Christian practice of dividing all time into Before and After the birth of Christ, which had taken place during the reign of Augustus.



(2) The notion that the birth of the new era took place on December 25, the birthday of the sun god with whom the Caesars identified themselves, which provided the basis for the subsequent Christian claim that Christ was born on this day.



(3) The notion that Sunday was a special day, more important than any of the other days of the week, which provided the basis for the subsequent Christian claim that Christ rose from the dead on a Sunday, which should therefore be the day on which Christians should gather to pretend to eat his flesh and drink his blood.
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Birth of the Sun

December 25 as birth of the resurrected god, Attis, represented in processions as a pine tree.

500 years before the Roman Empire

See how satan has set up the counterfeit hundreds of years before the real comes into the world...

Famous Hebrew Author

Clipped from en.wikibooks.org
The most famous text in the world, the Bible, was written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek. Many religious believers believe that the Bible was inspired directly by God, so they would say that God is a very famous author in Hebrew. Another famous author in Hebrew is the Nobel Prize laureate S. Y. Agnon (pronounced Shay Agnon). Among the currently popular writers in Hebrew are Amos Oz, Etgar Keret, Zeruya Shalev and also David Grossman, who writes books for adults and for children.
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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Untitled

Clipped from reactor-core.org
When you have studied all that can be known of
the universe, do not think that you know all about the wisdom
and power of God. For in the world, we know, God has only
manifested just so much of His wisdom and power as were necessary
for the good of man. Not according to the reach of His wisdom and
power is their manifestation in the phenomenal world (for they
are infinite), but in accordance with the needs of His creation
and of His creatures.
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