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Don’t give it the slightest consideration at all. Because it is irrelevant. There have been many calendars and the one we are under was the one which “stuck”. When the dopey acolyte picked his boss’s birthday, which he got wrong, it wasn’t the year 1 in North America. Or Japan. Or many other places. You are wed to trivia. Dig that hippie mystic!
That old chestnut? The 'common era' through a historical event (Christianity rather than Mithraism, Isis worship or the Mysteries becoming the state religion of Rome) does not a single solitary thing to validate the religion as true, never mind the reality of the Jesus of the Bible, and is nothing to do with the case for a soul or spirit.
In fact, as I so often detect is the case with you, I am sure that you know it's hardly an argument at all but a rhetorical trick, done more to amuse yourself than to make a case.
Because someone in power had to pick a calendar and we went with this one. And this acolyte got the date wrong anyway! But we stuck with the mistake. Big deal. We know that there were foolish mystics in abundance in primitive ancient times who made decisions. So some people stuck with this one. Different calendars were established in different early civilizations. The Chinese new year was also probably formulated by some irrational mystic. But it stuck, because someone had to do it. And mystics and tyrants were doing everything in that time. So no, the calendar does not confer any legitimacy or historicity to the Jesus mythology. It is just another historical accident.
The traditional Chinese New Year was the most important festival on the calendar. The entire attention of the household was fixed on the celebration. During this time, business life came nearly to a stop. Home and family were the principal focuses.
In preparation for the holiday, houses were thoroughly cleaned to rid them of “huiqi,” or inauspicious breaths, which might have collected during the old year. Cleaning was also meant to appease the gods who would be coming down from heaven to make inspections.
Ancient calendars were mostly the result of a mixture of observation and superstition. It’s really that simple and does not make any primitive belief true or real. Dopey people made decisions. That’s about it.
Because a mistaken and false attribute will tend to be transferred through the literary creative process to the characters in our fiction. This seems rather straightforward and expected.
The first time you write "2021" on a dateline...will be the proof you are wrong. Dig THAT reality!
You are repeating yourself. I already covered, with efficiency and panache, why that is an erroneous contention.
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