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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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| | Re: "CHRISTMAS THROUGH THE EYES OF A CHILD" CONTEST
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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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