Guest guest Posted November 21, 2004 Report Share Posted November 21, 2004 Dear Mihaela, I don't know any thing about Christians but I only know that they pray to jesus and follow his gospel-Bible. But the word you haved added " materialists " for christians pained me. Actually most of Asians follow Lunar calendar. i.e Arabs, Indians, chinese, Koreans, Japanese, Indo-china. Not only Indian Many of Asian festivals are celebrated according to Lunar calendar. But it is true that Indian festivals has many scientific reasons for opting for the date of celebrations. We celebrate festival called " Sankranthi " in the month of January. This day always falls on January 13-16. And guess Romans who created the Calender based SUN is the origin of dates and months of current day calender. From the history we can understand European culture is the offspring of Romans and Greeks. I guess this lead to fixing christmas day as 24-5 december and good friday in the month of March-April as per calendar based on Sun. Please correct me if I am wrong. -somasekhar > Wed, 17 Nov 2004 08:50:06 -0800 (PST) > mihaela danailova <mihaela_nha >Re: thanks > >Thank You for sending this very important explaination on Diwali's meaning. >As I understod this hollyday depends on the lunar callendar and It changes the date according to it.And it is not a coincidence,maybe,that in this very period the Muslims have their Ramadan.Only Christians,beeng perhaps,the greatest " materialists " ,have fixed the Christmass day on 24-5 of December. >It is another thing that people need such kind of events to accept faith,but very often only events remain... >Yours-mihaela > >devashish.sarkar wrote: > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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