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["Paul Hillman" <chris_hillman AT msn.com>]

Whatever!!! Your choice!!

Paul Hillman
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Fred Enga<mailto:fenga AT astechman.com> 
  To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org<mailto:homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org> 
  Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 6:23 PM
  Subject: RE: [Homestead] Wrong Answer, was Who started this ChristmasThing?


  Paul,

  I am not a Xtian.  I celebrate Jul as did my ancestors for the last 6,000
  years.  You do your thing and I will do mine

  Cheers

  Fred

  -----Original Message-----
  From: 
homestead-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org<mailto:homestead-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  [mailto:homestead-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of Paul Hillman
  Sent: November 29, 2004 4:11 PM
  To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org<mailto:homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  Subject: Re: [Homestead] Wrong Answer, was Who started this
  ChristmasThing?


  Lynda,

  The word Christmas derives from, "Christ's Mass", ......duh!! Sort of a
  Christian thingy??

  The season was melded with the "pagan" winter-rituals, for the sake of
  enlightening the ignorant to the true meaning of the "seasons" as God had
  first created them to be.

  >From the very beginning of the Creation God knew that a salvation would be
  needed for those who would go astray from there first intended estates. The
  whole creation reveals God and His designs and intentions. Pagans could see
  these things in minor ways, but never understood their deeper meanings until
  God sent His Son, to reveal it all.

  Sure is hard, trying to teach Neo, or long-term pagans all of this!!

  Paul Hillman
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Lynda<mailto:lurine AT softcom.net<mailto:lurine AT softcom.net>>
    To: 
homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org<mailto:homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org<mailto:homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org<mailto:homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>>
    Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 3:10 PM
    Subject: [Homestead] Wrong Answer, was Who started this ChristmasThing?


    That's a nice story, Paul, but is simply that a nice story.  Fact is, we
    have the Romans and Northern Europeans to thank for the whole gift giving
    thing and it had nothing to do with Jesus.
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