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From: dale@sp7040.UUCP (Dale Clark)
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Subject: Re: Christmas parties
Summary: There have been 16 'Jesuses'
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Date: 30 Dec 87 20:55:35 GMT
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Take the example of Christna [sic?] beliefs.  Here was a demi-god born 1200
years before the Christian Jesus of a virgin mother who performed miracles
and was eventually put to death on a cross.  Sound familiar?  There have been
16 different sons-of-God, most of them males born of virgins.  But there is
no secular evidence that Jesus ever existed.  The Roman's never noted his
presence.  Winter has been a time of parties dating far back when tribes,
seeing the sun grow ever lower in the heavens (pardon by use of that word),
would have dances and prayers hoping for it to return.  Of course it always
did.

Even the Bible contradicts itself not only about the time the alleged "Jesus"
was born, but also about his name, and the fact that he was born of a virgin.
You want the exact citations? - I'll quote them for you.  But all this is
irrelevant to those persons who view the world through rose-colored glasses.
If you want to celebrate X-mas as religious - fine.  But don't interfere with
my celebration.  X-mas is a product of man, made by man, celebrated by man,
and so it will continue.

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