From: johac 

In article ,
 "Robibnikoff"  wrote:

> "johac"  wrote in message
> news:jhachmann-86AFAC.16224223032007{at}news.giganews.com...
> > In article ,
> > cary{at}afone.as.arizona.edu (Cary Kittrell) wrote:
> >
> >> In article 
"J Young"
> >>  writes:
> >> >
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> >> > William Rearick, Schools Superintendent of the Tiverton
Public Schools
> >> > in
> >> > Rhode Island, has banned the Easter Bunny from appearing at a
> >> > fundraising
> >> > event tomorrow at the Tiverton Middle School. He has
also banned the
> >> > word
> >> > "Easter" from all school events. He told the
Providence Journal that
> >> > during
> >> > the last year and a half, he has become "more aware
of folks who don't
> >> > have
> >> > a Christian background." Taking the place of the
Easter Bunny will be
> >> > Peter
> >> > Rabbit; children will be able to get their picture taken with him.
> >>
> >> So, the superintendent bans a pagan fertility symbol from the
> >> Christian rites of spring.  There must be a special word for
> >> irony this deep.
> >>
> >> (how about that other pagan fertility symbol: eggs?)
> >
> > And for that Winter Solstice celebration, we'll definitely have to do
> > something about those pagan trees.
>
> And that pagan holy and ivy - and mistletoe - and the colors red and green
> and, and......................... ;)

I remember a T shirt I saw once. It said "Give me that Old Time
Religion" and beneath it was a picture of Stonehenge. :-)
--
John #1782

"We should always be disposed to believe that which appears to us to
be white is really black, if the hierarchy of the church so decides."

 - Saint Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556) Founder of the Jesuit Order.

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