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Cancel Christmas: The date's all wrong, say scientists
No more Christmas cards with snowy winter views. Those carol singers knocking on your door should be wearing shorts and sandals, not wrapped up in scarves and mittens. Using computer software to track the exact location of the Christmas star 2,000 years ago, astronomers have calculated that Christmas should be celebrated on June 17th and not on December 25th. But it's not a knock on religion, the astronomers say. In fact, the opposite is true. 6 comments from 6 users
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posted by
Wayfarer
on Dec 9, 2008 at 03:23 PM
The date of Christmas is not news. The Holy Fathers deliberately placed that date on Dec 25 in opposition to the pagan feast to Saturn. http://orthodoxwiki.org/Nat... It is also an assumption that the star that guided the Maggi was a natural astronomical event and not a miracle that God created for that purpose. posted by
Ray_Harwick
on Dec 9, 2008 at 04:47 PM
I was married on June 17 so that day is taken. Christians can have June 16th. posted by
AudreyB
on Dec 9, 2008 at 04:53 PM
I'm not cancelling Jack! My gifts are bought, my tree is decorated, I've dragged out my red sweater and made some hot chocolate. So Christmas is ON. posted by
NancyII
on Dec 9, 2008 at 04:59 PM
The reason they decided not to have Christmas on June 17th is because my birthday is on June 14 and I refuse to be upstaged ! posted by
Laurah
on Dec 10, 2008 at 09:31 AM
HM, don't be giving away my birthday. ;-) Besides, I need Christmas in December to lift me out of my winter/fog/dreariness funk. Nancy, Geminis are the best. No one can ever figure us out. :-) posted by
catpaw
on Dec 10, 2008 at 10:30 AM
Additionally, the cleric who designed the calendar skipped from 1 BC to 1 AD without using zero. (The Mayans and Aztecs grasped the concept of zero before the Europeans.) That makes us at least two years off. Anyway, I once sat in on a presentation of the Christmas star at Griffith Observatory. The stars were recreated on the particular night. (Not Dec. 25.) The Magi followed the stars as they pertained to astrology. To be sure, an educated guess but the best one I've seen.
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