To say we don't know how many years have really passed since some arbitrary moment in time is to say there is no "millennium." There is no century. Let's just admit it, we don't know when the heck it is! <g> Why do we celebrate anything ever?

It is of no relevance when Christ was really born. I had a neighbor once who was 89. Or 90. He wasn't sure, because no one kept records well enough when he was young to be sure. So he picked a day and a year as close as he could, and then celebrated it as his birthday. When he celebrated his 90th birthday, it didn't matter if he was really 89 or 91 years old. It was the date on the calendar marking the passage of 90 years since the day he had established as his birthday. We mark time by a particular calendar, and we place significance on the passage of arbitrary intervals of time. The lunacy is we can't count to know what those intervals are. An interval of 100 years includes the 100th year. 1000 years includes the 1000th year. The odometer rolled as we changed from year 999 to year 1000. After 999 years had passed. NOT a millennium!!! We are approaching the end of the 1,999th year. NO MONK IN THE SIXTH CENTURY WOULD HAVE STARTED COUNTING AT ZERO AND NUMBERED THE FIRST YEAR ZERO!!! They didn't have zero, and if they had, they wouldn't have counted the first year as the zeroth year. Zero represents the instant in time marking the beginning of our calendar. By the end of day 1, one day had passed. It wasn't day zero. Day 1.

It's not only three lunatics on the chip board who believe this. It's the national time keeper also.

Whatever you believe, please, do have a happy new year. :-)