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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> I'm sorry if my lack of respect for christmas and christianity vexes you,
> but personally, I find little to respect in christianity.
These are two really different things. For the record, Christmas is not a
Christian holy day -- it is a pagan holiday. Some of its practices are even
condemned in as ancient a text as the book of Jeremiah (probably as idolatry):
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10:2
Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed
at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
10:3
For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the
forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
10:4
They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with
hammers, that it move not.
10:5
They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne,
because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil,
neither also is it in them to do good.
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Haven't we gone over this before? Anyone that thinks Christmas is anything
but a commercial/bogus holiday is just not paying attention very much. Of
course, this kind of thing doesn't surprise me concerning Xtians...
-- Hop-Frog
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| (...) I think you are confusing it with the pagan celebration of the winter solstice (Christmas was traditionally celebrated on the day when there was the least amount of light-- in the northern hemisphere:-)-- as the day when the light came into (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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