Cancel Christmas?

[Balanbam00]

Christian Arabs celebrate it their's is the religious aspect of Christmas.

.....watching their flocks by night???
( I do not believe it was December, its hellishly cold then and on sandy patches with wind howling over a desert area? Plus their flocks (?)they would be in some enclosed area, otherwise they would wander around,and at night pitch black? So lets think about August /September? )

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Christian Arabs celebrate it their's is the religious aspect of Christmas.

.....watching their flocks by night???
( I do not believe it was December, its hellishly cold then and on sandy patches with wind howling over a desert area? Plus their flocks (?)they would be in some enclosed area, otherwise they would wander around,and at night pitch black? So lets think about August /September? )

Must have been December, Balan because the three wise men followed the twinkling star.

All the inns were packed because the punters had all been to the Christmas markets! "How did they know it was Christmas", is a question that constantly puzzles me!

[oldcolner]

Must have been December, Balan because the three wise men followed the twinkling star.

All the inns were packed because the punters had all been to the Christmas markets! "How did they know it was Christmas", is a question that constantly puzzles me!

More Bollox Talk

Did you not go to church or Sunday School

It was for a census. The census played a crucial role in the administration of the peoples of an expanding Roman Empire, and was used to determine taxes.

“ a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. And all went to be registered, each to his own town. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, to be registered with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child."

Wonder if they believed the numbers...

Theologians have also suggested that Jesus was born in the spring, based on the biblical narrative that shepherds were watching over their flocks in the fields on the night of Jesus' birth — something they would have done in the spring, not the winter.