We think Joseph was dead by the time Luke wrote his gospel, some 20 years after Jesus was crucified. The last mention of him was when Jesus was about 12, then there is nothing after that, whereas we hear about Jesus' cousins, Mary's sister, etc. etc.
When the insults come, you've lost the argument.
Merry Christmas.
No longer pagan, yes, but at the time of the early Christians it was pagan.
Your "argument" is pointless.
Here's some information on pagan celebrations of birthdays. https://1stcenturychristian.com/Birthdays.html
Why should I?
Yes and yes
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"Early Christianity would have known when to celebrate the birth of the Lord."
They chose not to celebrate this event, rather other things, like Easter.
Celebrating birthdays was the emperors and kings to laude themselves, ordinary people didn't celebrate birthdays until modern times. At the time of the apostles, to celebrate Jesus' birthday would be a different meaning than today.
Patriotism is, theoretically, every citizen's responsibility.
When the military's advertisements focus on patriotism and show white men ready to defend the nation, and not bullshit women's empowerment and appeals to your pocketbook...then you know a war is planned.
This woman will be in the rear with the gear.
I personally know people who were suckered into joining the military due to things like patriotism after 9/11. Hell, I joined the military myself for several reason, one of which was patriotism.
So...what else ya got?
Unless it says cognitive tests are required in the Constitution, this will never happen.
To Granger credit, she didn't run in 2024, and 2022 was the last time she ran.
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We have a thread winner right here!
I'm shocked, shocked that our military's bad recruitment efforts convinced a black woman to join the military due to monetary reasons and not patriotism.
In other news, rain makes streets wet and dog bites man.
To the victor go the the spoils.
To the victor go the the spoils.
It's the oldest rule in politics mon ami.
No matter how many times this particular silliness is proved wrong, it rises again like a comic book zombie.
Did you know that the original Christmas festival was a holiday celebrated together with Christ’s baptism on January 6? No Sol Invictus (Roman pagan feast of the Invincible Sun) there, I’m afraid, so that can’t be the origin of Christmas. (Armenian Christians still celebrate this single feast on January 6, though because the calendar some of them use is out of sync with the one many of us use, it will fall on our January 19.)
And even when Christmas did get moved to December 25 (getting separated out from the baptism feast), it was not about Sol Invictus, which actually post-dates (you read that right!) the association of Christ’s birth with December 25, being introduced by the emperor Aurelian only in AD 274. Meanwhile, St. Hippolytus said in his commentary on Daniel (written ca. AD 202-211) that Jesus’ birthdate is December 25. (Maybe the pagans stole it from the Christians!)
Rather, December 25 was arrived at because it was exactly nine months after March 25, when the Annunciation was being celebrated, which is the feast of Christ’s conception in the womb of the Virgin Mary.
Christmas on December 25 isn’t a claim that Jesus was born on that day or even an attempt to claim a pagan holiday and make it Christian. It’s about a feast that was set to be nine months before.
https://blogs.ancientfaith.com/asd/2018/12/05/no-christmas-is-not-pagan-just-stop/
Jesus is the reason for the season.
Jesus is the reason for the season.
The Chinese know how to monkey copy, and building a DNA database isn't all that difficult.
https://mindmatters.ai/2021/07/china-is-building-the-worlds-largest-global-dna-database/
Indeed. For most people hooked on opioids, their first dealer was a doctor.
It's MAGA billionaires like Musk, or woke billionaires like Soros.
Is anyone surprised that there is an oligarchy? Sheesh.