The Hidden Truth of Jesus's Birth
The Hidden Truth of Jesus's Birth
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https://www.ohmynews.com/NWS_Web/View/at_pg.aspx?CNTN_CD=A0000796270
What it claims
OhmyNews citizen reporter Song Hyun-cheol wrote this piece in 2007.He claims December 25 was a festival day honoring the Roman sun god Mithra.He explains this was the day, just after the winter solstice, when daylight began lengthening again.He writes that Emperor Constantine, a follower of Mithraism, issued an edict to observe Sunday.He states that Theodosius later simply renamed the festival Christmas.Citing the record that shepherds spent the night out in the fields, he estimates Jesus was actually born sometime between March and October.
How it connects
The argument rests entirely on historical evidence, Constantine's actual edict and the seasonal detail about the shepherds, with no symbolic correspondence involved.