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From: robinson@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (Michael Robinson)
Newsgroups: alt.flame,talk.religion.newage
Subject: Re: Theological Debates
Keywords: Holiday
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Date: 5 Jan 88 17:36:17 GMT
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In article <2064@geac.UUCP> chris@geac.UUCP (Chris Syed) writes:
> 
>  Hmmm. Well, up here, we don't celebrate anything at all on your birthday,
>  sorry. Nor, with the exception of sundry "Druids", do many folks celebrate
>  pagan feasts these days. 

The San Francisco Chronicle sent a reporter over here to Berkeley to find
out how many people were planning on celebrating the winter solstice. 
In a completely unscientific "man on the street" sample, something like
60% said they were.  Quite a few neo-pagans running around.

I recently learned one of my friends in San Diego is planning on getting
"handfasted."  If that don't beat all.  

So, I don't know about the Great White North, but around here they seem 
to take their pagan feasts seriously.

This religious war thing has spread into some of the most unlikely of 
newsgroups (I think it started in soc.women).  Lots of volume.  I suggest
the formation of a new group.  Maybe soc.crusade, or talk.religion.jihad,
or alt.good.vs.evil, or something like that.  Good old-fashioned religious
war like Grandma used to make.  Fun for the whole family.

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