grumble.

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I'm not impressed by people rambling on about how Christianity "stole" Christmas.
Hush now.
"Pagans" (as a unified, worldwide, catholic body of Everything Right and Good in the World Before Jeeezus Broke their Perfection) stole their stinkin' tree from the mole-worshippers of Guinea.

The Greek's heading to San Antonio for a week - she's on the plane now.
So expect More Surly.
Rawr!

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More interesting than the old-hat "they stole it from the pagans" (as if we modernites haven't borrowed anything from pre-modern societies and called it our own) is the conflict within Christian sects over how best, if at all to celebrate it. There's an article out there discussing how the Puritans banned Christmas upon penalty of 5pence for any act of celebration and how Baptists and Dutch Anglicans followed suit while Methodists, Catholics etc. practiced it. It seems there was a rift on whether or not to celebrate it, and how, right up until the 1860's or so. I'd link the article but you know...I saw it awhile ago...=)

Tim C.