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Best season's greetings to you all with a special
"Merry Christmas 2004"
to our Catholic friends.
They know what I mean, but if there is one (shame on him)
erring and sinning by ignorance, he may look at the
Appendix.
Georges.
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APPENDIX
Christ is the only person born, one may legitimately say,
7 days before his own birth. As we all know, He was born
on the Dec 25 of the year -1, or of the first year BEFORE
CHRISTUM NATUM.
Sounds strange at the first glance, but the explanation
is simple, even if it's rich in implications going down
to the roots of our civilisation.
Christ was a Jew and for Jews the physical birth does not
count compared with the spiritual birth, the circumcision.
Early Cristianity venerated His Jewishness and "Seigneur's
Circumcision" became the holiest Christian holy day, that
of (spiritual) CHRISTUM NATUM, the foreordained beginning
of the Christian Era.
Only later, when Rome became antisemitic, Christum Natum
coinciding with Seigneur's Circumcision became a pain in
the neck and a scandal. It was too late to back out, but
at least one could avoid rubbing in. January 1 became
gradually a pure arithmetical device and the big show has
been transferred to December 25 of year 1 BEFORE CHRISTUM
NATUM.
Talking about Christian Era one can hardly forget the
ridiculous quarrels among grown up and apparently educated
people about Millennium starting in 2000 or 2001. With a
bit of arithmetics we know that it's 2001, but schools
being what they are, we are not surprised to see the
majority thinking otherwise, if you may call it thinking.
Be that as it may, amidst this tohu-bohu an oddish fact
emerged and took us momentarily in deep waters: Believe
it or not, the Pope has declared 2000 as the start of
Catholic Millennium. Why???
On the one hand, it is difficult to believe that, advised
by all cunning Jesuits, he could make such an arithmetic
blunder, so one is inclined to look for some more
pragmatic explanation.
On the other hand, the whole world, whether Christian or
not, whether religious or laic, whether criminal or
honest, counts their dates with respect to Christum Natum,
which is the greatest marketing success ever achieved by
any organization, so why assail it, why cut the branch on
which one is sitting?
On the second thought one sees the light. Millennium gave
a pretext to finish once for all with the scandal of
Christ's Jewishness and of Catholic chronology and
holiness reposing on a Jewish Mitzvah.
Calling Catholic and Usual CHRISTUM NATUM respectively
"CCN" and "UCN" we see that declaring the Catholic
Millennium at 2000 defines Year 1 of CCN as -1 of UCN and
transfers Catholics to live currently in 2004 CCN. UCN
is of course kept as the flourishing marketing context,
but Catholic summit of holiness quits the Jewish Mitzvah
and moves to Beitlehem creche.
The past century witnessed on the one hand Rome's
complicity with Nazi crimes and, on the other hand, some
sincere trials to humanize the faith and to refuse
fanaticism and intolerance. The decision to create a new
Catholic calendar illustrates Rome's tendency to refuse
these humanistic ideas in favor of antisemitism,
fanaticism and intolerance.
It's not by chance that 2005, sorry! 2004, saw first
exorcists graduate from the Pontifical Regina Apostolorum
University of Vatican and a nun crucified to death by an
exorcist for having talked to him "arrogantly", which
could only be devil's doing.
Ouff, I jumped in the time machine and here I am, back
in 2005 UCN, trying to breathe a bit.
Good breathing in 2006 UCN to you.
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