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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuqui[The Time Traveller])
Newsgroups: net.religion,net.singles
Subject: Re: Re: Christmac {report} card (TRY AGAIN DAVE)
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Date: Sat, 15-Dec-84 14:21:22 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec 15 14:21:22 1984
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Summary: 


 
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>   Dave,
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>  I believe Buddhists would dis-agree very strongly with your statements.

I would also point out that there is the Winter Solstice in here somewhere,
celebrated by druids around the world. Also, Saturnalia, which was the
winter festival celebrated in Rome, which happens to fall on December 25.
In fact, Christians celebrate Christs birthday on December 25 not because
He was born then, but because it was a Roman holiday that they could use to
hide their own celebrations of the birth. At the time, both celebrating
Christ's birth and being Christian made you candidates for lion food. 

Some Christians, in their lack of tolerance for cults and other faiths and
their zeal to convert, ought to remember that they were once a cult-- maybe
not a People's Temple, but the powers that be of THAT time, thought so...

chuq (to you in love and tolerance)
-- 
From behind the bar at Callahan's:		Chuq Von Rospach
{allegra,cbosgd,decwrl,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!chuqui  nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their
bones. So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus hath told you Caesar was
ambitious... And Brutus is an honorable man