"Hyerdahl"  wrote in message
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> Avenger wrote:
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> > > Hyerdahl wrote:
> > > > Avenger wrote:
> > > > > "Hyerdahl" 
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> > > > > news:1112496847.734022.71880{at}l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > > > > We don't celebrate holidays that Christians
stole from Pagans
> at
> > > > > > our house, but we do have our regular Sunday
dinner, which
> > > > > > sometimes includes a ham. :-)
> > >
> > > No doubt they steal a hog from a nearby farm, and after a ritual
> > > sacrifice to the mother goddess, they have plenty of ham.
>
> > >
> > > > > So I guess it's a bunch of wet hens sitting around bitching.
> > > >(edit)
> > > >> >
> > >The Pagans did not convert willingly to Christianity; many of them
> > > were > murdered and kidnapped and forced into what you call
> "conversion".
> > >
> > > Is that what happened to the Vikings?
>
> >  Someone forced them to stop worshiping Odin and made them become
> Christians?  Wow!  It would have taken a tough bunch to pull that off.
> Who did it?
>
> > > What's amazing is that within a generation in England those Vikings
> became
> > peaceful farmers.

The English girls of the time found the Viking men very sexy and wanted to
marry them.



> >
> > >
>
> > > Btw, "Pagan" is not a proper noun, as it does not
describe one
> > > particular religion, unless you are using your own private
> dictionary.
>
> I wasn't talking of any one pagan religion;  the old religion is all
> about the many forms of paganism.
>
> (edit)>
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>  However, the old religion is growing again, and Pagans celebrate
> > their > own holy days. So mote it be.
> > >
> > > Hog farmers beware.


Beware of sows and sods:o)


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