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A HERETIC I AM

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17. Because the calendar year is not a perfect circle

Reply to rurallib (Original post)

Tue Feb 27, 2018, 02:00 PM

Feb 2018

Meaning it has 365 days and not 360. I've always looked at is as if it was a circle hung on a peg. The point of the circle touching the peg is basically December 25th. But since it isn't perfectly round, you could hang that circle on any day of the year, including Easter Sunday, but then all the rest of the religious holidays would vary year to year because almost all of them are tied to a celestial event.

December 25th is the day at which the sun begins rising and setting further south on the horizon, when viewed from north of the equator.

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One thing that has always perplexed me is the movable date of Easter [View all] rurallib Feb 2018 OP

Here's the answer to your question PJMcK Feb 2018 #1

yeah I know that - my question is more why the church rurallib Feb 2018 #2

It's pegged to the timing of Passover instead of a specific western calender date. Tanuki Feb 2018 #3

yes, but the actual Last Supper supposedly only happened once rurallib Feb 2018 #5

But Last Supper was on Passover SCantiGOP Feb 2018 #9

Yeah, but it didn't happen on our calendar. Sentath Feb 2018 #11

Passover starts on a fixed date in the Hebrew calendar muriel_volestrangler Feb 2018 #19

And the Greek Orthodox church uses a different calendar altogether. Laffy Kat Feb 2018 #4

I didn't want to even throw that one in...... rurallib Feb 2018 #6

If it were up to me... defacto7 Feb 2018 #7

Weekend Cartoonist Feb 2018 #8

At least Good Friday SCantiGOP Feb 2018 #10

BUT IF IT DIDN'T MOVE . . . Brainstormy Feb 2018 #12

Agree. If they can nail down the birthday mountain grammy Feb 2018 #13

that is the perfect concise way to put it rurallib Feb 2018 #14

Because like most Xian holidays edhopper Feb 2018 #15

It all dates back to Pope Ziggy the Capricious (Kidding) -nt Freelancer Feb 2018 #16

Because the calendar year is not a perfect circle A HERETIC I AM Feb 2018 #17

Sunday has something to do with it. Iggo Feb 2018 #18

One group in ancient times DID have a set date The Genealogist Mar 2018 #20

that is interesting that at least one group would follow a set date. rurallib Mar 2018 #21