happy Holidays or Happy Christmas? OT ~ Gary

[Guest guest]

i loved reading your post, Gary. Thank you also for the

great links! Happy Solstice.

namaste

 

~ pt ~

 

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does

not intrude!

~ Emily Dickinson, poet (1830-1886)

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replying to this digest#339 post:

Gary Mattingly <gsmattingly (AT) ya (DOT) .....>

OT: Re: happy Holidays or Happy Christmas? OT

 

Hi,

 

Although Christmas was declared a holiday

on Dec 25 in 325 or 350 AD or somesuch year

wide spread Christmas celebration is only

fairly recent, like the 1800's or sometime

around then. English Puritans and

Reformed Protestants also banned Christmas

festivities in the 1600's, I think because

of its pagan origins. The Winter Solstice

celebrations or observances started quite

a bit earlier. <snipped>

Some web pages for those interested:

 

http://www.didyouknow.org/xmas/xmashistory.htm

http://www.kencollins.com/Holy-02t.htm

http://www.corsinet.com/braincandy/xmastrivia.html

http://chi.gospelcom.net/GLIMPSEF/Glimpses/glmps084.shtml

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/2/story_264_1.html

http://www.spelwerx.com/yulehistory.html

http://www.religioustolerance.org/xmas_tree.htm

http://www.religioustolerance.org/winter_solstice.htm

 

Gary