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Since December 25th is celebrated as Christmas, those who don't believe
in it or in celebrating it should not accept the day off and the holiday pay that goes with it. A&T wrote: We aren't sure when Christ was born, but we celebrate in on December 25. I wish the people who still believe that Christ was born (whenever it was) would revolt against the people trying to take it away from us. Tricia "jsmith" wrote in message news:1103081068.f4c58340a6a4fb6c079c5594718575bc@s onicnews... The secularists have been chipping away at the word Christmas for a number of years now and are substituting irrelevant (religious ??) concoctions to diminish the value of the celebration of the birth of Christ. Isn't it time we begin boycotting those merchants who in their TV advertising are exploiting the Christmas tradition yet not acknowledging that this is truly the Christmas season. The code word "holiday" season is coming into increasing use in an effort to minimize the influence the Truths that were taught by the Prince of Peace. |
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Since December 25th is celebrated as Christmas, those who don't believe
in it or in celebrating it should not accept the day off and the holiday pay that goes with it. A&T wrote: We aren't sure when Christ was born, but we celebrate in on December 25. I wish the people who still believe that Christ was born (whenever it was) would revolt against the people trying to take it away from us. Tricia "jsmith" wrote in message news:1103081068.f4c58340a6a4fb6c079c5594718575bc@s onicnews... The secularists have been chipping away at the word Christmas for a number of years now and are substituting irrelevant (religious ??) concoctions to diminish the value of the celebration of the birth of Christ. Isn't it time we begin boycotting those merchants who in their TV advertising are exploiting the Christmas tradition yet not acknowledging that this is truly the Christmas season. The code word "holiday" season is coming into increasing use in an effort to minimize the influence the Truths that were taught by the Prince of Peace. |
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"Karen Segboer" wrote in message
... You're both cross-posting AND posting OT without any warning in the "Subject" line. I'm beginning to think you're either very new to Usenet or just an annoying new troll. How lucky we are here on rtc if the latter's the case. Karen, now expecting an incoming harangue from said new troll. __ /7__/7__/7__ \::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.cupcaked.com/reviews (...and leave off the "potatoes" to e-mail) The Yahoo people can add him in with us |
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"Karen Segboer" wrote in message
... You're both cross-posting AND posting OT without any warning in the "Subject" line. I'm beginning to think you're either very new to Usenet or just an annoying new troll. How lucky we are here on rtc if the latter's the case. Karen, now expecting an incoming harangue from said new troll. __ /7__/7__/7__ \::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.cupcaked.com/reviews (...and leave off the "potatoes" to e-mail) The Yahoo people can add him in with us |
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Phyllis wrote:
Since December 25th is celebrated as Christmas, those who don't believe in it or in celebrating it should not accept the day off and the holiday pay that goes with it. We'll celebrate what the bloody hell we like, kid. It's been Xmas for the last 50 years that I know of, Yule logs on sale in the baker's (thta's an echo of the fire we burned the sacrificed virgin in the days when we could find them) and I'd like to see you giving up New Year as a purely Scottish holiday. Fact 1- Bar Yussuf was NOT born on 25th December 0 AD. For several reasons I can't be bothered going into here. Fact 2- If the American Baptists had any honesty to their OWN religious traditions, they would celebrate Christmas by going to work normally and avoiding the food and jollity banned by the English Puritan Oliver Cromwell. Christmas is Arminian (or Roman of course). Paul Burke |
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Paul Burke wrote:
jsmith wrote: The secularists have been chipping away at the word Christmas for a number of years now and are substituting irrelevant (religious ??) concoctions to diminish the value of the celebration of the birth of Christ. Keep your sticky fingers off our Yule. We (humans) were celebrating the Winter Solstice thousands of years before you traduced the teachings of Bar Yussuf. Seconded! "In the Norse Sagas we are told that boar was eaten at this time of year, and that it was sworn oaths upon. "One time Hethin was coming home alone from the forest on Yule eve. He met a troll woman riding on a wolf, with snakes as reins. She asked his leave to keep him company, but he would not. She said: "That shalt thou rue when drinking from the hallowed cup." In the evening vows were made: the sacrificial boar was led in, men laid their hands on him and sware dear oaths as they drank from the hallowed cup." As the boar is sacred to the God Ing (Freyr), it is known that at least one day of the 12 nights was sacred to him. In addition, Woden played a role in Yule as the Wild Hunt is said in many of the Norse sagas as well as in English and Germanic folkore at that time, not to mention his byname in Old Norse of Jólnir." Hail the Ancient Gods of the N European Peoples! Dirk The Consensus:- The political party for the new millenium http://www.theconsensus.org |
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Paul Burke wrote:
jsmith wrote: The secularists have been chipping away at the word Christmas for a number of years now and are substituting irrelevant (religious ??) concoctions to diminish the value of the celebration of the birth of Christ. Keep your sticky fingers off our Yule. We (humans) were celebrating the Winter Solstice thousands of years before you traduced the teachings of Bar Yussuf. Seconded! "In the Norse Sagas we are told that boar was eaten at this time of year, and that it was sworn oaths upon. "One time Hethin was coming home alone from the forest on Yule eve. He met a troll woman riding on a wolf, with snakes as reins. She asked his leave to keep him company, but he would not. She said: "That shalt thou rue when drinking from the hallowed cup." In the evening vows were made: the sacrificial boar was led in, men laid their hands on him and sware dear oaths as they drank from the hallowed cup." As the boar is sacred to the God Ing (Freyr), it is known that at least one day of the 12 nights was sacred to him. In addition, Woden played a role in Yule as the Wild Hunt is said in many of the Norse sagas as well as in English and Germanic folkore at that time, not to mention his byname in Old Norse of Jólnir." Hail the Ancient Gods of the N European Peoples! Dirk The Consensus:- The political party for the new millenium http://www.theconsensus.org |
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Nicholas O. Lindan wrote:
"jsmith" wrote chipping away at ... Christmas ... substituting ... shopping I am indeed sick of it. If I hear 'Frosty the Snowman' and or anything else out of tin-pan alley when I go grocery shopping I will scream. The commercial crud may force me into going to the Kosher butcher at Christmas. But, that's what one gets for trying to get a free ride by tacking Christmas on the back of Winter Solstice. One always pays in the end. Was ChristmasSolstice another one of Paul's idiot ideas or was it Nicea? Xians don't seem to have any sacred dates of their own so they hijack those of whatever pagans lands they invade. Anyone would think that their most sacred time of year, when JC rose from the dead, would not be named after the Goddess of fertility Oestre with her symbols the egg and rabbit. -- Dirk The Consensus:- The political party for the new millenium http://www.theconsensus.org |
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I read in sci.electronics.design that Phyllis phyllisnilsson@buckeye-
express.com wrote (in ) about 'Christmas vs "Holidays"', on Wed, 15 Dec 2004: Since December 25th is celebrated as Christmas, those who don't believe in it or in celebrating it should not accept the day off and the holiday pay that goes with it. In Britain, you don't have the option. But when I was employed, my Japanese colleagues made a point of sending me telexes on December 25, just to remind me they were working. I have to admit that now I'm self-employed, I still don't do much work on December 25; the social pressure is really too strong. But last year, it was the only day of the holiday that I wasn't working. And of course I wrote IEC 61000-3-2 over the long Millennium holiday. (;-) -- Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only. The good news is that nothing is compulsory. The bad news is that everything is prohibited. http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Also see http://www.isce.org.uk |
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