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What irks me about the holidays
Monika:
--- Quote from: milomorris on December 17, 2010, 02:58:33 pm ---That's what I'm talking about. They are hitching their own secular meanings/celebrations to a religious holiday.
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Yes, that´s exactly what a lot of people (including myself) are doing.
But then, things keep on changing - and the meaning of things change. If a lot of folks don´t celebrate Christmas as a religious holiday, maybe it should be considered a secular holiday nowadays.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Meryl on December 17, 2010, 02:48:42 pm ---Thanks, Jeff. I hadn't been aware of that. Very interesting. 8)
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Sure enough!
Monika:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on December 17, 2010, 02:39:01 pm ---Supposedly it does. It's supposedly the Greek letter Chi.
Wikipedia's entry for Chi Rho: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi_Rho
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Thanks. Had no idea. Very interesting.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote ---I wish people would stop attaching non-religious cultural elements to Christmas.
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Of course, when you consider that the Christian Church, sometime in the A.D. 300s, if I remember correctly, attached its celebration of Christ's birth to a pre-existing Pagan festival, I guess you could say the wheel has come full circle.
(That is, I think I remember reading somewhere that it was in the A.D. 300s. Rumors to the contrary, I wasn't present when it happened. ...)
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Buffymon on December 17, 2010, 03:10:57 pm --- Thanks. Had no idea. Very interesting.
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Sure enough!
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