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Re: It's started again...

wesommer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (wesommer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Dec 11 12:12:54 1992

Christmas is a kind of funny holiday, because while it is superficially
Christian, it is so heavily mixed with pagan and secular imagery that it
has become a de-facto secular holiday.  The date was chosen to coincide
(before calendar drift) with the winter solstice, a pagan holiday, rather  
than any real concept of the birth day of Jesus..

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