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From: andrea@hp-sdd.UUCP (andrea)
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Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: Sun, 13-Jan-85 16:58:00 EST
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>
>Not to flame an article such as this one, but "many religions", Chuq?
>Christianity is the only religion I know of with a major holiday in December.
>Judaism has only a minor holiday.
>

All of the older nature-rooted religions now lumped together as
"pagan", as well as the newer mysticisms which have grown from them,
celebrate a major holiday on or around the winter solstice.  The darkest
time of the year, when the days start waxing longer and the promise of
life to come is nurtured in the midst of death and bleakness, has 
been an important time for symbolic and spiritual rebirth for many
centuries before Christ.


Andrea Frankel, Hewlett-Packard (San Diego Division) (619) 487-4100 x4664
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