Coincidence or conspiracy?

[struggle4progress]

12. You're confusing two completely different things: I have no problem whatsoever

with people who want to take the PoV that stories in the Bible are myth; I do, however, have real problems with people who simply make up bullshit to support their claims that stories in the Bible are myth, just as I have real problems with people who simply make up bullshit to support their claims that stories in the Bible are historical fact

If you want to dispute the historical accuracy of various Biblical stories, that won't bother me at all -- but if you decide to spread bullshit that Horus was traditionally considered to have been born on December 25th, and that the date of Christmas was chosen based on such a date for Horus' birthday, backed by thousands of years of tradition, then you've just wandered into crazy territory: the Romans didn't conquer Egypt until 30BC, and December is a Roman month

The ancient Egyptian calendar was 12*30 + 5 days in length, so drifted about 25 days per century. The calendar used by the Macedonians seems to have been a lunar-solar calendar of 354 days with intercalary months as corrections. The Roman calendar, before the Julian reform, which added the familiar leap day every fourth year, involved 355 day years with intercalary years about 377 days long, but it was about 80 days out of sync with the traditional seasons when Caesar was in Egypt. The probable reason for the choice, of December 25 as the final official date of Christmas, was that it was considered the date of the solstice after the Julian reform