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From: dyer@vaxuum.DEC (Where's the falafel?)
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Subject: Christmas is a Pagan Holiday!
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Date: Fri, 23-Mar-84 13:33:56 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 23 13:33:56 1984
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	You may not be aware of this, but Christmas is a pagan holiday!
It was the pagans' way of celebrating the winter solistice.  Jesus was
born in the summer!
	There are two versions of the story explaining why Christmas
is celebrated on the pagan holidays:
	(1) The Christians, experts at subverting other religions (for
example, they cast Lucifer in a role to look like Pan, the pagan's god),
perpetrated the fraud that the pagan's winter solistice holiday (their
biggest shindig, by the way) was Jesus' birthday.
	(2) The poor, poor, persecuted Christians had to celebrate
Jesus' birthday in secret on a vile, filthy, immoral pagan holiday.
	Take your pick.

	Though I'm not very fond of Christmas piety, I'm equally unfond of
Christmas commercialism.  I'd really enjoy using that holiday to celebrate
the winter solistice; let's get some awareness of our planet into it!
		<_Jym_>

| Jym Dyer | DEC Documentation Production Softwa | Nashua, New Hampshire |
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Fri 23-Mar-1984 10:34 Zen (not EST!) Time