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From: kriz@skat.usc.edu (Dennis Kriz)
Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian
Subject: Santa Claus as Swastika/Hammer and Sickle
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Date: 19 Dec 90 09:56:38 GMT
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I just wanted to underscore this point, and ask for comments:

We talk about freedom of speech and freedom of religion.  Yet in this
country for the last generation, we have been forced to officially
venerate Santa Claus, the Christmas tree and other symbols determined
by the courts to be "non-offensive" ... even though when forcibly 
removed of religious root ... they offend many.

dennis
kriz@skat.usc.edu