Virgil

Best tee shirt I ever wore... this : Nuff' Said

If I hand write something, I often will use cursive. But it depends on what I'm doing, if I'm writing my own notes I might well use cursive. If there where a "cursive option" for laptops I could answer the poll in the affirmative.

The date of Christ's birth was misplaced... honestly because Easter was much more important for the vast majority of Church history for obvious reasons ( that and you can date the Passion because the Last Supper took place on Passover). In terms of year it couldn't have been anything after 4 BC because Scripture itself identifies the figure of Herod the Great who died in 4 BC, as the ruler of Palestine at the time. Using this and Herod's order to kill infants under the age of two in Bethlehem after learning the Magi (who visited Christ sometime after his birth but whilst he was in Bethlehem; and yes, the Scripture only indicates there was more than one. Three is likely assumed by many due to the number of gifts they brought, I'd imagine) gave him the slip, would likely put the year of Christ's birth at about 6 BC. Santa Claus comes from Sinterklaas, itself a dialectal pronunciation of Saint Nicholas. The character of Santa Claus itself does come from a number of stories about the person Saint Nicholas in the original form although a number of things from various folk figures were added on as the centuries went by and the modern form is largely due to an early 19th century American political cartoonist Thomas Nast.

Yes Virginia Santa Claus is real.... Although his actual name is Saint Nicholas and was a Bishop during the 4th century in what is now Turkey; and was known for signing the Nicene Creed and being generous to the poor.

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