"jane" wrote in message
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On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:49:11 +0000, VivienB
wrote:

~On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 23:50:56 +0000, Troy wrote:
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~Now let's just get that awful event (Xmas) over with
~
~You might feel better if you look upon it as a celebration of Yule,
~the changing of the seasons and the birth of the (real) new year. Or
~so I try to think.........
~
~Regards, VivienB

I don't think there's anything wrong with Christmas as an event. It's
the commercialisation and terrible telly and overindulgence that's the
problem. If you take it as it was meant to be,

That was not what it was meant to be at all. It originated as a heathen
festival long before the Christians hijacked it.

[snip]

Franz