B Calm
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Thu Dec-14-06 07:56 PM
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While there actually isn't a "war on Christmas", I think it is fair |
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to say Christians back in the 1960s screamed about how stores has completely bastardized Christmas by commercialism. So stores, (just to pacify the Christians) started saying Happy Holidays.
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ClassWarrior
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Thu Dec-14-06 07:58 PM
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1. True. Watch "A Charlie Brown Christmas." |
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Thu Dec-14-06 08:05 PM
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2. If you want to go back further to our Protestant roots |
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Christmas was shunned by all good christians. Especially all those pagan symbols like Christmas trees and lights and so on. Christmas was a Catholic holiday (or at least Episcopalian). Then those damn English folks had to go marry their queen off to some German guy, and he brought all those Christmas traditions to England and Christmas became "fashionable" and, well, we had to keep up with the English...
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Thu Dec-14-06 08:24 PM
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3. History can be so embarrassing to those that think they know |
B Calm
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Thu Dec-14-06 09:54 PM
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6. So Christmas is a Pagan Holiday??? |
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Thu Dec-14-06 09:56 PM
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7. The time of year and the more secular symbols, like the tree and |
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greenery are, yes.
But, obviously, it's just a settled time of year to celebrate the birth of the Christ child - even though that more than likely happened in March or April.
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Thu Dec-14-06 08:46 PM
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4. I still like Seinfeld's "Festivus for the Rest of Us." I have my |
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unadorned aluminum pole up in the living room now.
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Thu Dec-14-06 08:52 PM
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5. What are fake Christians without a fake war? |
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