Maybe he flame grills his SPAM :)
----- Original Message ----- From: "Edward Luna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <hlds@list.valvesoftware.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 3:01 PM Subject: RE: [hlds] Merry Christmas Flame thread? ROFL! -----Original Message----- From: john @ GamersCoalition [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 9:59 PM To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: Re: [hlds] Merry Christmas GamersCoalition.com no longer wants to be affiliated with this flame thread. :D much love, [Mmmm]stuttering.john .gc On 12/26/06, Roland E Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Pierre Smolarek wrote: > Edward Luna wrote: > >> True... Christ was most likely born in the spring... The Christians >> chose to celebrate the birth in late December so their celebration >> would coincide with the pagan festival of the winter solstice, when the >> Sun reaches it's lowest point in the southern sky. >> > > Correct me if i'm wrong, but wasn't it Emperor Constantine who set the > date to Winter solstice so that it would therefore be better accepted by > his people as it coincide with the pagan calibrations. But his desire to > follow Christianity was initially a farce as he feared some sort of > uprising as it was the current 'in' thing and he didn't want a revolt > etc ? > > P. > >
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