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Re: My version -- The meaning of CHRISTmas
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Sat, 12 Dec 1998 02:38:15 GMT
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lpien@ctp.iwantnospam.SAYNOTOSPAMcom
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People have been celebrating winter solstice since well before the start
of Judaeism, much less Christianity. The early expropriation of that
holiday by the Christian church was one of the greatest marketing ploys
of the first millenium.
I'm happy for you that you get the meaning you do from this time of
year, but we in our family just don't. Secular society has taken back
the holiday from those who stole it, for the most part, and I'm kind of
glad. I think commercialism is a good thing, while religion is the
opiate of the masses who don't know better. :-)
I was perfectly happy to let this drop but since you're prosetelysing
(1), you may want to prepare for a refutation of most of what you say.
But I doubt your fragile belief system can take the strain so I probably
will let it slide. Besides, it's all been said before, and faith means
giving up logic, so why bother?
I can tolerate anything except intolerance, and you're not showing much
tolerance.
1 - I know that's spelled wrong. But I'm late for my christmas(2) party
and I haven't started putting my tux on yet.
2 - A party where the name of your saviour won't be mentioned in any
sort of formal way... after all, most of the attendees won't be
christian... We won't be formally mentioning Shiva or Vishnu either,
even though there probably will be more Hindus there than christians.
--
Larry Pieniazek http://my.voyager.net/lar
For me: No voyager e-mail please. All snail-mail to Ada, please.
- Posting Binaries to RTL causes flamage... Don't do it, please.
- Stick to the facts when posting about others, please.
- This is a family newsgroup, thanks.
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| Now that Larry has defined the "True meaning of Christmas," I thought I would. Christmas, like it or not folks, is a CHRISTIAN holiday. It exists because Christ is the savior and this is the day we celebrate his birth. We don't celebrate Christmas (...) (26 years ago, 12-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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