Re: Why not 13 months? (Was La Systeme Metrique)

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Rodney East (east@aps.anl.gov) wrote:
: wtho@ciba-geigy.ch (Tom Hofmann) wrote:
: >The "7th day when he rested" is the Sabbath, i.e. Saturday (look
: >at Israel). Early Christians began to worship on the first day of

: As I understand it the Christians continued to worship on Saturday (many
: early christians were Jews) for many many years. It wasn't until Near
: the time of Constitine that they changed to Sunday.

: >the week (Sunday) instead of Sabbath, since Jesus resurrected on
: >the first day of the week. So again: week starts on Sunday.
: >

Both authors are correct. In addition, some of the practices of
the Roman Catholic Church are derived from Pagan rituals. This
was done in order to get pagans into the church. The papcy
endorsed this.

Regards,
Bob Haley

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