[Peace-discuss] The Christmas He Dreamed for All of Us

[C. G. Estabrook]

And a happy Christmas (i.e., Christ's mass, the eucharist
celebrated for the birth of the Christ, as it has been since
the earliest days of the Christian movement) to you, Phil --
and to all other AWAREists.  --Carl

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>Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 14:39:14 -0600
>From: "Phil Stinard" <pstinard at hotmail.com>  
>Subject: [Peace-discuss] The Christmas He Dreamed for All of Us  
>To: peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net
>
>Heaven forbid that Christmas should have anything to do with
Christ!  (I'm 
>being sarcastic.)  If you're going to turn a religious
holiday into a 
>secular holiday, what's the point in having Christmas at all?
 That's just a 
>rhetorical question, because many of us know what Christmas
is really about, 
>the birth of our Savior.  Everyone, have a merry Christmas!
>
>--Phil
>
>>Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 09:13:41 -0600
>>From: "Lisa Chason" <chason at shout.net>
>>Subject: [Peace-discuss] The Christmas He Dreamed for All of Us
>>To: <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
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>>The Christmas He Dreamed for All of Us
>>
>>By Harold Meyerson
>
>[..]
>
>>Now the Fox News demagogues want to impose a more sectarian
Christmas on 
>>us,
>>supplanting the distinctly American holiday we have
celebrated lo these
>>threescore years with a holiday that divides us along
religious lines. Bill
>>O'Reilly can blaspheme all he wants, but like millions of my
countrymen, I
>>take attacks on Irving Berlin's America personally. If
O'Reilly doesn't 
>>like
>>it here, why doesn't he go back to where he came from?
>
>
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