Posted on 12/07/2018 6:58:32 AM PST by SeekAndFind
I have been studying the Word since age five; I knew all nine. I am not entirely alone in that.
Happy Holidays (plural) has a different connotation than Merry Christmas (singular), by intention. It is an insidious generic substitution.
Dennis the Little had to work with Roman Numerals, and no Zero. He was brilliant, but her erred.
He was actually calculating the birth of Christ in order to then produce the Church calendar for Easter, which the medieval Church considered far more important: the Death and Resurrection were the (literal) crux of Christianity.
There is also nothing about a donkey in the account of the flight into Egypt...but Giotto has Mary riding on a donkey in his fresco.
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