Re: A Merry Christmas And a Happy New Year

12-23-2006, 10:42 AM

Qui si parla Campagnolo wrote:
> catzz66 wrote:
> > Qui si parla Campagnolo wrote:
> > > mark wrote:
> > >
> > >>Qui si parla Campagnolo wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>Plus the 'Luke 2:11, 12 thing...leave yer religion in the church pls....
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >>I'm pretty sure Christmas is (or was at one time) a religious holiday.
> > >>
> > >>mark
> > >
> > >
> > > Well Santa and a Christmas tree is certainly religious, but Pagan in
> > > origin...Christmas can be described by some as somebody's birthday but
> > > it is a commercial holiday, observed with gusto in places like Japan,
> > > which is mostly Shinto.
> > >
> > > Didn't like the 'bent, don't like any in your face Christian
> > > references. We can bend this thread to how many have died in the name
> > > of religions, or how many have suffered and suffer today, or how
> > > organized religion is all about power, greed, guilt, money....but maybe
> > > not.
> > >
> >
> > Nothing personal, Peter, but you clicked on the link. There's no
> > guarantee that you are going to like it.
>
> Didn't ask for a guarantee and there is nothing that says I gotta bow
> to the idea that some biblical reference is always a good thing. A
> little research as to how the bible was writtten, by whom, and why is
> great reading. Now there is an excercise in power, greed.

"Religion is the opium of the people." Which Marx brother said that? ;-)

12-23-2006, 12:11 PM

Ozark Bicycle wrote:
>
> "Religion is the opium of the people." Which Marx brother said that?
> ;-)

Louis Marx, who produced an alternative Christmas symbol, the toy train?

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12-23-2006, 01:46 PM

Mike Kruger wrote:
> Ozark Bicycle wrote:
> >
> > "Religion is the opium of the people." Which Marx brother said that?
> > ;-)
>
> Louis Marx, who produced an alternative Christmas symbol, the toy train?

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Wow! I had completely forgotten Marx Toys.

BTW, was Louis in "Duck Soup"? ;-)