An Old mystery ...

John Watkins · 04 Dec 2008, 23:56 · from 2008-December.txt.gz

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From: john.watkins04 at gmail.com (John Watkins)
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 18:56:25 -0500
Subject: (urth) An Old mystery ...
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You misunderstand.

Absent their astrological connotations, this silly theory could not be
seen to correspond to the Christ story at all.

Nor is the Crucifixion observed on December 22nd, as this theory
requires, or even "three days" before he resurrection--it's "the third
day".

Plus, I laughed at the Virgo = Mary bit. Not only is the gender wrong,
but Mary is venerated in January, March, May, November, and December
as well as August
and September, and her virginity is of course celebrated in December.
It a very silly theory, but creative, I'll give it that.

If you want me to, I can come up with an equally compelling theory
that the Christ story acts out the Chinese zodiac.

 inal message -
No, no, the houses of the Zodiac can be vi...

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On 12/4/08, Son of Witz <sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org> wrote:
>
>>You pretty clearly do mean astrological though, don't you?  Otherwise
>>what's the significance of the "scorpion"?
>
> No, no,
>
> the houses of the Zodiac can be viewed apart from any Astrological
> interpretations.  The House of Scorpio is a position in the heavens.
> One does NOT have to buy into any astrology to say the Sun is in Scorpio. It
> just means the Sun is in that position of the sky.
>
> Do you know the stuff I'm talking about?
> here's an article that sums it up fairly well. worth reading.
> I wont suggest watching Zeitgeist.
>
> http://members.cox.net/deleyd/religion/bibleastrology.html
>
> ~witz
>
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