Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: geoff@pmafire.UUCP (Geoff Allen) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Mammon and "Christmas". Message-ID: Date: 30 Nov 89 08:24:50 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: WINCO Computer Engineering, INEL, Idaho Lines: 16 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu Tony Wallis (tony@nexus.yorku.ca) suggests that we should acknowledge that "Christmas" is a secular holiday and come up with a new term to describe the celebration of Jesus' birth. >This would require us to use an alternative term for the Dec. 25 >festival celibrating the birth of Christ. One obvious possibility is >Christ Mass (pronounced differently from Christmas). Another is >Nativity. I like to write it CHRISTmas, to emphasize what the holiday is really all about. -- Geoff Allen \ Since we live by the Spirit, {uunet|bigtex}!pmafire!geoff \ let us keep in step with the Spirit. ucdavis!egg-id!pmafire!geoff \ -- Gal. 5:25 (NIV)