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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: it was more than five hundred years after the supposed
birth of Jesus before any serious effort was made to establish
the date of that birth--and that then a purely mythical date
was chosen: the 25th December, the day of the SUN'S new
birth after the winter solstice, and the time of the supposed
birth of Apollo, Bacchus, and the other Sungods;
when, moreover, you think for a moment what the state
of historical criticism must have been, and the general standard
of credibility, 1,900 years ago, in a country like Syria,
and among an ignorant population, where any story circulating
from lip to lip was assured of credence if sufficiently
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