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In a message dated 5/1/2005 2:55:04 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> > gbannister10 at a... writes:
> >("Geoff said on the main list:" )
> > Geoff:
> > Excuse me but Christmas and Easter are NOT pagan holidays. By
> > definition, they are Christian festivals.
>
>
> I beg to differ!!!  Christmas came around the same time as YULE and
> easter was known as OSTARA-
>
> When Constintine(sp?) decided that the known world would
> be "christian" the only way he could get people to cooperate was to
> turn the pagan annual events into christian events.  It is history!
>
> As to the "chtistian-izing" of the holiday- I find it a bit amusing
> the christians don't even follow their own teachings- in the Old
> Testament is say explicitly not to cut down the ever green and
adorn
> it in silver and gold which was a part of the pagan belief of the
> time Baal.