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From: yiri@ucf-cs.UUCP (Yirmiyahu BenDavid)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: Halloween and Jews (and Christians)
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Date: Sat, 3-Nov-84 20:52:04 EST
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Trying to be gentle...

Purim, as you noted, is of Jewish origins. This makes comparison of
Christian/pagan holidays  with Jewish Purim a non-valid comparison.

The background of Halloween and Christianity is not new information
to me and I don't think the Jewish net is the appropriate forum for
a treatise on what seemed to me a topic which should be of interest
to Christians and is rather irrelevant to Jews. You are correct,
but it just isn't of any Jewish interest I don't think... and this
is a Jewish net. If one of us made a slip regarding Christianity
and Halloween, it was merely in passing and of no great consequence
in the overall scheme of Judaism one way or the other. 

You may disagree with us, but when it comes to Christianity my per-
sonal feeling is that it is a topic for net.religion rathat than
net.religion. jewish. I also think it would have done more good
since it is not we (hopefully) who are involved in either aspect
(Halloween or Christianity).  So, no sarcasm, no blasting, etc.
Just a personal thought that net.relgion.jewish is for articles
of predominantly Jewish interest. Other articles are more appro-
priately posted on net.religion.