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The Gregorian calendar is a bugfix on the Julian ones though, and while julius Caesar might have been pope, but definitely not Christian. He's 100% the roman em

by 8note 4y ago

The Gregorian calendar is a bugfix on the Julian ones though, and while julius Caesar might have been pope, but definitely not Christian. He's 100% the roman empire guy though

connorgutman 4y ago
Posted this in response to another comment but: While the Julian calendar was clearly more secular, The motivation for the adjustments in the Gregorian calendar was to re-align Easter to a historically accurate date and to ensure that people around the world were celebrating it at the same time. While you are definitely right that the Gregorian calendar stems from Roman culture, one cannot deny that its revisions were religiously motivated and funded. Further, that its history and global adoption is intertwined with the spread of Christianity around the world. With its global adoption cultures all around the world have lost their connection to their own calendars and practices.
orionion 4y ago
"Pope" comes from the Latin Pontifex Maximus". Julius Caesar (100 - 44 BCE) was a Roman Pontifex Maximus, Gregory VIII (1572 - 1585 CE was a Catholic Pontifex Maximus. And keeping track of calendars was part of their job!! >The Pontifices were in charge of the Roman calendar and determined when intercalary months needed to be added to synchronize the calendar to the seasons. Since the Pontifices were often politicians, and because a Roman magistrate's term of office corresponded with a calendar year, this power was prone to abuse: a Pontifex could lengthen a year in which he or one of his political allies was in office, or refuse to lengthen one in which his opponents were in power. A Pontifex with other political responsibilities, especially away from Rome, might also have been simply distracted from his calendrical duties as chief priest. This caused the calendar to become out of step with the seasons; for example, Caesar's crossing of the Rubicon in January 49 BC actually took place in mid-autumn. Under his authority as pontifex maximus, Julius Caesar introduced the calendar reform that created the Julian calendar, with a fault of less than a day per century, and which remained the standard till the Gregorian reform in the 16th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontifex_maximus#Roman_Republic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontifex_maximus#Roman_Republi...

by 8note 4y ago

The Gregorian calendar is a bugfix on the Julian ones though, and while julius Caesar might have been pope, but definitely not Christian. He's 100% the roman empire guy though

connorgutman 4y ago

Posted this in response to another comment but: While the Julian calendar was clearly more secular, The motivation for the adjustments in the Gregorian calendar was to re-align Easter to a historically accurate date and to ensure that people around the world were celebrating it at the same time. While you are definitely right that the Gregorian calendar stems from Roman culture, one cannot deny that its revisions were religiously motivated and funded. Further, that its history and global adoption is intertwined with the spread of Christianity around the world. With its global adoption cultures all around the world have lost their connection to their own calendars and practices.

orionion 4y ago

"Pope" comes from the Latin Pontifex Maximus". Julius Caesar (100 - 44 BCE) was a Roman Pontifex Maximus, Gregory VIII (1572 - 1585 CE was a Catholic Pontifex Maximus. And keeping track of calendars was part of their job!! >The Pontifices were in charge of the Roman calendar and determined when intercalary months needed to be added to synchronize the calendar to the seasons. Since the Pontifices were often politicians, and because a Roman magistrate's term of office corresponded with a calendar year, this power was prone to abuse: a Pontifex could lengthen a year in which he or one of his political allies was in office, or refuse to lengthen one in which his opponents were in power. A Pontifex with other political responsibilities, especially away from Rome, might also have been simply distracted from his calendrical duties as chief priest. This caused the calendar to become out of step with the seasons; for example, Caesar's crossing of the Rubicon in January 49 BC actually took place in mid-autumn. Under his authority as pontifex maximus, Julius Caesar introduced the calendar reform that created the Julian calendar, with a fault of less than a day per century, and which remained the standard till the Gregorian reform in the 16th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontifex_maximus#Roman_Republic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontifex_maximus#Roman_Republi...