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Re: My version -- The meaning of CHRISTmas
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Mon, 14 Dec 1998 14:33:55 GMT
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> 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. :-)
Karl Marx. Shocking, to here him quoted by such an anti-communist!!!!
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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 (...) (26 years ago, 12-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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