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From: wlinden@unirot.UUCP (Will Linden)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,talk.religion.misc,alt.flame
Subject: Re: Christmas parties
Summary: "not observed by everyone" == "religious"?
Message-ID: <574@unirot.UUCP>
Date: 30 Dec 87 04:37:36 GMT
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In article <14173@oddjob.UChicago.EDU> pooh@oddjob.uchicago.edu.UUCP (soggy and hard to light) writes:
>one cared if it snowed on Hanukkah.  No Rudolph the Red-Nosed
>Reindeer.  We never sent out Christmas (OR Hanukkah) cards.
>
>You see, these are still strange customs to me, and certainly
>not SECULAR ones.  I have been exposed to them all my life,
>but they have never been customs of ALL Americans, like Thanksgiving
>and turkey.
Your argument assumes that because something is "not the custom of 
ALL Americans" THEREFORE it is "religious".
 That means that the May "Memorial Day", for instance, is "religious"
since some states observe Confederate Memorial Day instead.
THAT won't wash.


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