• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    The originally calculated timeframe was incorrect, so rather than change what year it is, religious scholars just say Jesus, if he existed at all, was born in 6-4 B.C.E.

    The Bible puts Jesus’s birth before the death of Herod the Great, which happened shortly after a Lunar eclipse - we now know that happened in March, 4 B.C.E.

    However, it’s also possible Jesus was born as far back as 6 B.C.E., what with Herod ordering the killing of all male babies under 2 years of age, and it is written that effort was made to hide Jesus from this.

    Of course, it’s all likely bs anyway, but there is a somewhat logical reason for the whole Jesus’s birth not lining up with year 0 thing.

  • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    Yes, the calendar was made by monks many centuries later that were doing the best they could to estimate when Jesus was born.

    This is disputed by exactly no one.

    Also, the monks were shooting for 1 AD to be the year of the birth of Jesus.

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      7 months ago

      Christians changed the calendar because that’s what religious people do. There’s a Buddhist calendar too, ya know?

      So atheists want to change the Calendar because… ?

      Yeah atheism is a religion. Y’all are just in denial about it.