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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: years again before Shakespeare, and whose deeds in minutest
detail have been recited and honored all over Europe, is almost
certainly a pure invention, and never existed; when
you remember--as mentioned earlier in this book[1]--that
it was more than five hundred years after the supposed
birth of Jesus before any serious effort was made to establish
the date of that birth--and that then a purely mythical date
was chosen: the 25th December, the day of the SUN'S new
birth after the winter solstice, and the time of the supposed
birth of Apollo, Bacchus, and the other Sungods;
when, moreover, you think for a moment what the state
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