Re: Religion returns to Easter

On  17 Mar 2008 19:29:32 -0400 "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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carved the following into the hard stone of rec.arts.sf.fandom 
>Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Dunno, but there's a play called _The Potting Shed_ in which a
>> family of really determined atheists celebrates Christmas but
>> calls it Children's Day.  
>
>Why not celebrate it as Isaac Newton's birthday?
>
>Since he discovered the nature of colored light, colorful lights and
>decorations make more sense in that context than in the context of a
>Christian holiday.  Of course the pine tree ought to be replaced with
>an apple tree, but then what does any kind of tree have to do with the
>birth of a child in a manger?

Because I'd quickly tire of explaining all that to everyone. Christmas
is a nice secualr holiday for most of us, and a religious holiday for
those who believe.

We just call it Winter for the most part.
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"Where is the prince who can afford so to cover
his country with troops for its defense, as that
ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might 
not,in many places, do an infinite deal of mischief
before a force could be brought together to repel 
them?" - BENJAMIN FRANKLIN-1784