Just keep away from the U.S.

One more comment on this thread, then I’ll push off.

I find the Flying Spaghetti Monster a very good antidote to Fundamentalism.

http://www.venganza.org/

I have a friend who is a geologist who was especially impressed by the logic of FSMism!

I have heard many extreme views here in Ireland, but the press wouldn’t publish them, not because of any form of censorship but simply because the ideas are so far off the beam.

maybe i’m just slow. but hey–don’t blame me. i’m an american!

I have heard some very strange theories on the Christmas story. On I heard recently was literally incredibly credible, if you know what I mean. However, that is not a topic for a comment or even a post. Much too complex. There are some thing that are not suited to blogging?

Are you allowed to call it ‘British Summer Time’? shouldn’t it be UTC +1 (Daylight saving time) or something like that?

The Christmas stories are thought by some scholars to be poetic licence, though if one was making them up it would be a bit odd to include shepherds (who were definitely not respectable) and Magi (who were definitely not kosher).

We can get very Amero-centric in our thinking. It is a place far removed from the rest of the world which has passed the peak of its influence. Smart punters look East to the majority world – India and China hold the future.

@Ian – You are the expert. And I have also heard that Jesus was born in September or thereabouts?

But does it matter? No. The way we count the years does not alter historical events, or lessen their importance. The calendar is just a commonly accepted international convenience that works. Similarly the use of AD or CE [or vice versa] doesn’t change any facts.

God help us if the fundamentalists suddenly insist that we set our calendars forward by by a few years. I have a hard enough time adapting to British Summer Time.