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Originally Posted by petegz28
My brother who is educated in such matters claims Jesus' true birthday is probably closer to April if anything. Despite the attempt of the article above, Christmas was chosen on Dec. 25th to either slap the Pagans or adopt the date to help conversion. This is the time the Pagans celebrated the Winter Solstice. Pagan traditions are found throughout chrisitanity and many experts claim it was done to help convert Pagans to christianity.
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I believe in order for the star to be in the position in which it was described, it would have had to been summer.
However, it's also necessary to remember that the timeline roughly coincides with the introduction of the Julian calendar, so April would have been the 2nd month of the year.