From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!hplabsb!soreff
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.misc
Title: Re: CHRISTMAS
Article-I.D.: hplabsb.1233
Posted: Mon Dec 20 13:48:55 1982
Received: Tue Dec 21 20:58:16 1982
References: ecn-pb.125

One item that got left out of the "green christmas" discussion is that
christmas is really a ~druid holiday. Most of the things associated with
christmas (mistletoe, christmas tree, yule log) are northern-european-pagan
in origin. I recall reading (sorry, no reference availible) that the church
picked the date of christmas in order to compete with pagan celebrations at
that time of year.		-Jeffrey Soreff (hplabs!soreff)