Robibnikoff <nospam@newsranger.com> wrote in
news:mwSdc.1009$H4.139@www.newsranger.com:
> In article <c5726r$t12$0@pita.alt.net>, Uncle Davey says...
>>
>>
>>news:KOydc.941$H4.80@www.newsranger.com...
>>> In article <c54b47$ftq$0@pita.alt.net>, Uncle Davey says...
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >> In article <c5482h$9h2$0@pita.alt.net>, Uncle Davey says...
>>>
>>> snip
>>> >> >Santa Claus is an antichrist symbol.
>>> >>
>>> >> Hoo boy - Now I've heard everything.
>>> >
>>> >It's true. He rewards based on works, if you've been 'good'. That's
>>> >the false gospel.
>>>
>>> Frankly, it's all false to me.
>>>
>>> >That and distracting from the real meaning of Christmas.
>>>
>>> What? You mean the Winter Soltice celebration also known as Yule
>>> that the
>>early
>>> xian leaders stole from the Pagans?
>>>
>>> Because THAT, my friend, is the REAL reason for the season.
>>
>>That may be so, but Yule is only a foreshadowing of the REAL
>>Christmas, as are so many things in the pagan faiths.
>
> That is just your interpretation. Yule wasn't a forshadowing of
> anything - It was a completely different holidays. BTW, you DO know
> that Jesus, if he even existed, wasn't born on December 25th, right?
>
I'm kind of amused that he uses the word, "Foreshadowing" too.
It is a literary device used in *fiction*.
--
Fred Stone
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Cthulhu for President! Why vote for a lesser evil?
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