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to: Steve Asher
from: George Pope
date: 2006-01-19 22:19:00
subject: Ceremony in Progress

SA> SA> With Christmas being replaced with "holiday season", and
SA> SA> Christmas trees being renamed "holiday trees" and the like,
SA>
SA>  GP> Why wouldn't it be?
SA>
SA> Of course it would be. Under the "noahide laws" it will be
an offence
SA> punishable by beheading to celebrate such a holiday, to be a Christian,
SA> or to acknowledge Jesus Christ as God.

Jesus only celebrated Jewish holidays, and never instituted any new ones.
Elsewhere in the Scriptures it's stated not to add to them (them including the
God-ordained holidays)

SA>  GP> After all, the holiday season pre-existed Christ by many
SA>  GP> millennia!
SA>
SA> How many millennia, George?

Most, if not all of them!  Man soon noticed that the days started getting
longer about Dec. 21, and self-determined this to be a day of celebration!

Because I care,
|<+]::-)  (Cyberpope(the Bishop of ROM!))
(aka Reverend George A. Pope)



SA>
SA>  GP> The Roman church co-opted the previous "reasons for the
season" 
SA>  GP> and adopted their pagan rituals. . .
SA> 
SA> Possibly.
SA> 
SA> Cheers, Steve..
SA> 
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