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5. For Three Hundred Years, It Was All About Easter

For the first three hundred years of Christianity, Easter was the most important holiday on the calendar. In keeping with those aforementioned Biblical scholars’ bent, Christians were only interested in celebrating the death and resurrection of Jesus (i.e. the punctuation on the end of his whole theoretical point). It wasn’t until the fourth century AD, around 336, that Pope Julius I and the Christian church, decided to celebrate the birth of Jesus. Since no one actually knew any of the historical details of Jesus’ birth, it was decided to plop the festival at a convenient time of year, miraculously right at the end of Saturnalia.

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