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Christmas is a religious holidy. (CHRIST-mas) I'm puzzled as to why anyone would object to making religious stuff for a religious holidy. (21 years ago, 30-Aug-03, to lugnet.build.contests)
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(...) Well, it SORT of is a religious holiday. Not everyone that celebrates at that time of year (winter solstice) does so for religious reasons. We don't. Also I don't think Terry was objecting per se, just saying he didn't plan to participate in (...) (21 years ago, 30-Aug-03, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I don't think there's any getting around the fact that Christmas is a religious holiday. I know that there are lots of other holidays that many people celebrate around the winter solstice. However, Christmas happens to be one of the (...) (21 years ago, 30-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Christmas isn't a religious holiday for everyone anymore. Now, more and more people celebrate christmas as a day to share and love, nothing to do with whatever religious reasons other people might have to celebrate. I know I still celebrate, (...) (21 years ago, 30-Aug-03, to lugnet.build.contests)
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(...) The idea that Coca-Cola made up the current image of Santa Clause is an urband legend: (URL) (21 years ago, 30-Aug-03, to lugnet.build.contests)
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(...) If you are going to discuss/debate the nature of the holiday, please keep it _entirely_ in off-topic.debate. There are some (me!) who skip that group, and really don't care to read religion debates which _do_ have a habit of becoming nasty (...) (21 years ago, 30-Aug-03, to lugnet.build.contests)
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Silly me didn't set the followups. (...) (21 years ago, 30-Aug-03, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Hey thanks for the link. I was wondering if that was true. Seems not :-) Terry (21 years ago, 30-Aug-03, to lugnet.build.contests)
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(...) Indeed :-) But rest assured, I have no plan on continuing this thread anyway. Terry (21 years ago, 30-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Gregory wrote: <snip> (...) Er, isn't that a more reasonable expectation than asking people to travel to St. Louis to rebuild their MOC that has been shaken apart in transit? As one who has transported many MOCs to (...) (21 years ago, 1-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Depends on the contest budget, I suppose. A really high budget contest would fly all the finalists out and they could rebuild their MOCs on arrival. (this one isn't that high budget, given that finalists get 250 as their prize) Another (...) (21 years ago, 1-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.build.contests, Terry Prosper wrote: (snip) (...) Well, Santa's origins actually go back to the Christian Saint Nicholas from the 4th century, but yes, Santa does have both Christian and non-Christian influences. (for a reasonably fair and (...) (21 years ago, 1-Sep-03, to lugnet.build.contests, FTX)
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