Fri 9 Dec, 2005 09:11 am - [quote="dagmaraka"]but christmas as a christian holiday surely wasn't the usus until recently in history - one or two hundred years back.
...so where does the conclusion about it... (view)
Fri 9 Dec, 2005 09:00 am - [quote="dagmaraka"]i'm not christian, DavidH, and I (along with many others) don't see it as purely christian holiday. it is one that christians and non-christians happen to... (view)
Fri 9 Dec, 2005 08:59 am - Christmas-
Christian festival celebrated on December 25, commemorating the birth of Jesus.
December 25 had already been identified by Sextus Julius Africanus in AD 221 as the day on which... (view)
Fri 9 Dec, 2005 08:46 am - [quote="Setanta"]Christmas never was a christian holiday. It was originally a day sacred to the very popular Mithraic cult in the Roman empire. The Long Parliament in England in the... (view)
Fri 9 Dec, 2005 08:40 am - [quote="material girl"]
Its Christmas, its our time to celebrate.
I for one have no problem with anybody else celebrating their religions, as long as they done tell me I cant... (view)
Fri 9 Dec, 2005 08:14 am - [quote="J_B"]Hey, David~ Let me join the welcome wagon to A2K. I'm pretty close to you in southern Lake County, IL. I was in Racine last month spending a week with the Dominican nuns... (view)
Fri 9 Dec, 2005 08:11 am - Everyone needs to be careful about these. I've heard of scares like this before, especiallly after the September 11th attacks. 99% of the time, it is pure bunk. If anyone remembers, we were... (view)
Fri 9 Dec, 2005 08:09 am - [quote="Bella Dea"]I still haven't gotten an answer as to the compromise that should be made in this situation.
It is not my opinion but a fact that this time of year is not just... (view)
Thu 8 Dec, 2005 04:23 pm - [quote="Bella Dea"]
The point I was trying to make is that this season is not just the Christmas season. It's the Hanukka and Kwanza season too, which is my reasoning for Happy... (view)
Thu 8 Dec, 2005 04:15 pm - [quote="Bella Dea"][quote="DavidH"]I guess we just need to smile and nod at eachother over the whole of the year and hope our point is taken. Everyone's happy, no one is... (view)
