A while back I came across some information regarding the Hebraic calendar. To scholars of Hebrew culture, the lunar calendar is nothing new. In fact, is it a basic method of measuring time. Indeed, the small light, as Moses described it in Genesis, has been a major demarcation factor since the beginning of time. Having come up in a Western culture, that is to say, as a member who has been influenced by the Greeks and Romans, the lunar calendar is as wrong as it could be. Yet, I find something interesting about that fact that, in a situation where a culture has 50/50 odds on picking the right method for calculating time, Western culture opted for the one opposite that of the Hebraic culture. Now, the fact that our culture, one renowned for being anti-Christian, would be at odds with such a simple choice is not surprising. What I find surprising, however, is the fact that people are ignorant of the history behind the solar calendar. In Greek culture, Helios was the sun god. The fact that the calendar, the solar calendar that is, focuses the entire Western culture on a sense of time and the passage of day to night that could stem from a form of sun worship just strikes me as quite ironic. Yet, to think of working on a lunar calendar, or, to put it another way, based on a heavenly body that is not the sun, seems wrong. That prejudice is undoubtedly the result of having grown up only knowing the sun and day as the center of our system for measuring time. I've posted before about the significance of Friday nights (the beginning of the Sabbath day in Judaism) as being the most raucous of the American culture. It lines up quite nicely with the fact that a demonic form of cosmology would pin even the most basic type of norm, "Friday night fun", against a practice and form of viewing time that honors the God of the Bible. I guess it just amazes me that I've never seen a church point this out or realize it and act on this. I've seen churches that pose the question, and implement the practice, of having church on Saturday, but, as far as days beginning at dusk, that I have yet to see. We would literally have to flip our notion of day and night around... Only God would want to turn our world upside down that much, but, quite rightly.