TAKE THAT, PAGANS - AT 11:57 A.M. ET:  Via my friend Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit, from Britain's Telegraph:

Pagan worshippers, who braved freezing dawn temperatures to celebrate the winter solstice at Stonehenge, were dismayed to discover they had turned up on the wrong day.

A crowd of around 300 people, wearing traditional costume, met at the mystical stone circle on Monday morning to mark the rising of the sun on the shortest day of the year.

But unfortunately their calculations were slightly out meaning they had in fact arrived 24 hours prematurely.

Well, look, it's pagan math.  It's all relative.  Everyone has his own narrative.  Who are we to question?

However hundreds of enthusiastic revellers, who arrived at Stonehenge before dawn yesterday, decided to celebrate anyway.

Now that's the pagan spirit.  Happy Winter Solstice, Day Before!

Pagan leader Arthur Pendragon said: "It is the most important day of the year for us because it welcomes in the new sun. There were hundreds of people there. If we'd celebrated on the 21st it would have been the right day but the wrong sun – when the whole point of the occasion is about welcoming in the new sun.

Yeah well, sure, of course.  Everyone knows that.

"I did about three handfasting ceremonies, which are pagan marriages, and we've said prayers for world peace. It's a new beginning."

I wonder what they call a pagan divorce?  A handslapping?  A back of the hand?

Oh, never mind.  Merry Christmas.

December 25, 2009