"Uncle Davey" <noway@jose.com> wrote in news:c5726r$t12$0@pita.alt.net:
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> news:KOydc.941$H4.80@www.newsranger.com...
>> In article <c54b47$ftq$0@pita.alt.net>, Uncle Davey says...
>> >
>> >
>> >> In article <c5482h$9h2$0@pita.alt.net>, Uncle Davey says...
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>> snip
>> >> >Santa Claus is an antichrist symbol.
>> >>
>> >> Hoo boy - Now I've heard everything.
>> >
>> >It's true. He rewards based on works, if you've been 'good'. That's
>> >the false gospel.
>>
>> Frankly, it's all false to me.
>>
>> >That and distracting from the real meaning of Christmas.
>>
>> What? You mean the Winter Soltice celebration also known as Yule
>> that the
> early
>> xian leaders stole from the Pagans?
>>
>> Because THAT, my friend, is the REAL reason for the season.
>
> That may be so, but Yule is only a foreshadowing of the REAL
> Christmas, as are so many things in the pagan faiths.
>
Good old backwards causation. What a lovely fallacy.
> That's why some Christians were happy to take them on, rather than
> reject them, although there are of course two schools of thought on
> that topic.
>
More than two.
> And on that note, Happy EASTER.
>
And a happy Spring Fertility Rite to you too.
--
Fred Stone
aa# 1369
Cthulhu for President! Why vote for a lesser evil?
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