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From: matt@oddjob.UChicago.EDU (Not the kind you have to wind up on Sunday)
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Subject: Re: Theological Debates
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Date: 2 Jan 88 21:17:30 GMT
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markh@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Mark William Hopkins) writes:

)      Christmas may SEEM like a Christian holiday, but it is not.  Nor was it 
) originally.  The church stole (or borrowed) it around 8 or 9 hundred years 
) after Christ.

Wrong!  The church stole the DATE and hung their brand of holiday on
it to crowd out the other brands and gain market share.  They did not
go so far as to infringe on a trademark as that would have diminished
the name-recognition factor of the parent corporation.

Whether the superficial similarity in packaging is due to persistant
loyalty to the old brand or to clever strategy by the new is probably
impossible to determine at this time.

			Matt