> God is a Christian appropriation of the Sun. Christmas is an
> appropriation of the Winter Solstice. Both live in the heavens, God
> spreads light, looks down on all of us and believers "See the light",
> he rises to heaven and comes back down to earth.
>
> Pagan worship of the moon and sun was rewritten by the Christian
> victors who replaced pagan stories with Christian ones but kept the
> days the pagans worshipped on. Easter, the time when flowers bloom,
> leaves reappear on the trees and rabbits have bunnies is the time
> Jesus "Came back to life".
>
> The pagans were forced to worship a man rather than natural
> phenomenon, no wonder they had to be slaughtered in the process.
>
> Stained glass windows in churches bear images of the various
> characters of the bible story through which the sun is supposed to
> shine through into the church - between the Sun and the people is the
> filter of the ruling elite.