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Originally Posted by Mensan
Not really. It's what they want you to think. Jesus was born somewhere between August and October.
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Thank you for responding. I think the point is that heathens generally claim Jesus was never born at all. Christ's non-existence at any time ever (as they would claim) seems indistinguishable to me from Tíw's non-existence at any time ever. But I've never heard them objecting to Tuesday.
Wouldn't it be more consistent for them to condemn a courthouse, say, for booking someone in on Tuesday (because there's no such thing as Tíw and although they reject Tíw, for someone who doesn't it's a religious position and the government should not establish religious beliefs) in the same way they condemn courthouses for acknowledging Christ (because there's no such thing as Christ and although they reject Christ, for someone who doesn't it's a religious position and the government should not establish religious beliefs) by referring to Christmas whether verbally or in writing or in hieroglyphics if it came to that?
There'd seem to be an inconsistency there to me. If the Tues- or Christ- part of a word is just an etymological detail, why bother? They do bother in one case but not the other, as the video suggested, so I looked up the history of the words.