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Science evolved and so did the concept of one god.

You have been having a written discourse with neither but rather with
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He is that too:

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The coward calls a logical reply based on totally credible sources, "abuse",
and resorts to running from it.

Here's what I said, and it stands:

You smell your own foul odor.

Again:

From Encyclopædia Britannica:

The reason why Christmas came to be celebrated on December 25 remains
uncertain, but most probably the reason is that early Christians wished the
date to coincide with the pagan Roman festival marking the "birthday of the
unconquered sun" (natalis solis invicti); this festival celebrated the
winter solstice, when the days again begin to lengthen and the sun begins to
climb higher in the sky.

The traditional customs connected with Christmas have accordingly developed
from several sources as a result of the coincidence of the celebration of
the birth of Christ with the pagan agricultural and solar observances at
midwinter. In the Roman world the Saturnalia (December 17) was a time of
merrymaking and exchange of gifts. December 25 was also regarded as the
birth date of the Iranian mystery god Mithra, the Sun of Righteousness. On
the Roman New Year (January 1), houses were decorated with greenery and
lights, and gifts were given to children and the poor. To these observances
were added the German and Celtic Yule rites when the Teutonic tribes
penetrated into Gaul, Britain, and central Europe. Food and good fellowship,
the Yule log and Yule cakes, greenery and fir trees, and gifts and greetings
all commemorated different aspects of this festive season. Fires and lights,
symbols of warmth and lasting life, have always been associated with the
winter festival, both pagan and Christian. Since the European Middle Ages,
evergreens, as symbols of survival, have been associated with Christmas.
Christmas is traditionally regarded as the festival of the family and of
children, under the name of whose patron, Saint Nicholas
<eb://gateway/g?gtype=article_view&doc_name=core/05/71/23_1.html> (q.v.), or
Santa Claus, presents are exchanged in many countries.

For those wanting a full academic treatment on how christianity took over
existing pagan myths and celebrations see:

Paganism and Christianity 100-425 C.E. by Ramsay MacMullen , Yale University
Press

    Concise, elegant, massively documented and beautifully endnoted,
Ramsay MacMullen's book is a devastating account of the rise of Christianity
and the destruction of Paganism.

      With 85 pages of notes to 159 pages of text, with widespread use of
primary sources, archeological evidence and the secondary literature,
MacMullen's book is an exhaustive update of Gibbon for the present day. The
book consists of four chapters, those being Christian Persecution, the
losses of the Pagans, the rise of superstition and the assimilation of pagan
elements into Christian practice. I think Stalin would find it grimly
amusing reading, since it suggests that whatever success Christianity
achieved was by fanaticism and violence. We start off with an account of how
Christians systematically suppressed non-Christian works, as well as the
"heretics" amongst themselves. We hear Eusebius, the first great Church
historian, announce that it is not the duty to tell the whole truth but only
what is of profit. Students of the Russian Revolution will remember the
gruesome story of the child who informed on his "kulak" parents, was
murdered by his relatives, and became the hero of a gruesome cult. In this
book we hear how the emperor Justinian was moved to raptures on hearing of
how a Jewish boy convert survived being thrown into a furnace by his father.
Justinian learned how angels prevented the boy from being burned, and then
he had the father crucified.
     Persecution: MacMullen challenges those who argues that Christianity
was an improvement for women and slaves. Women did play some role in leading
Pagan cults, none at all in Christianity, and he tells how while a pagan
governor demanded the compensation for the family of a murdered prostitute,
Saint Jerome supported beheading for extramarital fornication. He discusses
how exorcisms, resurrections, and healings played a greater role in
conversions than sermons or reasoned argument. He discusses the increasingly
bloodthirsty demands of bishops, monks and imperial decrees as well as
pointing out the weaknesses of the bureaucratic machinery.

     Cost to the Persecuted: MacMullen notes how Constantine still claimed
a sort of divine status for himself and his father. He discusses the joyous
pagan festivals, including feasts, dancing, poetry orations and their long
presistence despite the opposition of the bishops (Augustine tried to argue
that giving friends presents was wicked). MacMullen also gives accounts of
pagans who thought idols had actual magical powers. He discusses the
destruction of pagan temples and shrines, as well as the cutting down of
sacred trees.

     Superstition: MacMullen discusses the shifiting attitude from the
rational world view of Pliny, Seneca and Plotinus and the increase in
credulity throughout the third and fourth centuries. MacMullen argues that
this was a result of changes in the elite as more vulgar and less literate
people increased their predominance. Whatever the merits of this thesis,
MacMullen points our the contempt prominent Christians such as Tertullian,
Augustine, Lactantius, Ambrose and John Chrysostom had for ancient
philosophy. They denounced Plato and Aristotle by name, and mocked the idea
of skeptical study and the scientific attitude. Nor did they stop there.
They told stories about appartitions over the battlefield, miraculous cures,
the everpresent existence of demons, people raised to life by Christians,
and dragons turned to dust by the sign of the cross.

You don't even know what trolling is, do you?

You should be just posting at alt.atheism
and nowhere else.
You are plonked for a month at least.