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From: marco@andromeda.rutgers.edu (the wharf rat)
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Xmas: which religion ?
Message-ID: <338@galaxy>
Date: 31 Dec 87 21:21:55 GMT
References: <14173@oddjob.UChicago.EDU> <7500002@hpcllak.HP.COM>
Sender: news@galaxy
Reply-To: marco@andromeda.UUCP (the wharf rat)
Organization: Franklin's Tower
Lines: 12
Summary: $$$$$$'s

In article <7500002@hpcllak.HP.COM> norma@hpcllak.HP.COM (Norma Pincus) writes:
>Yo, Pooh, what about me?  I'm not religious, and neither are my family
>or most of my friends.  We celebrate Christmas, but there is nothing
>remotely religious about our celebration.  Christmas is simply a time
>to chop down a tree and put it in the living room, and raise your stress
>level fighting crowds to buy presents for people you haven't thought about
>since the last time you did this.

	Well, if you ask me, you're worshipping commercialism.  So Xmas
is a religous holiday for you too, except that instead of Jesus you
worship $$$.  Oh no ?  Then why buy presents for people you don't
care about ?