John Boyle wrote: > To ALL, including James Knott, *MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A BLESSED NEW > YEAR!!!!!!!! :-) * > > In view of the fact that the church "borrowed" pagan or Roman holidays and called them Christmas, Happy Saturnalia. Might as well celebrate the original, instead of the hijacked version. Or perhaps celebrate Yule if you desire. Both of these are based on the winter solstice, which the church then stole and passed off as "Christ's" birthday, to make it easier for "pagans" to convert. The ancient Britons at Stonehenge seemed to be a bit interested in the solstice too, a couple of thousand or so years before Christ (if he even existed). Do a bit more research and you'll find the whole nativity scene, virgin birth etc., to be just some more nonsense.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturnalia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yule Gotta run. I have to decide who I'm going to sacrifice for the holidays. ;-) -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
