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Thread #8217   Message #354341
Posted By: Liz the Squeak
10-Dec-00 - 03:42 AM
Thread Name: Solstice blessings - The Shortest Day (Cooper)
Subject: RE: Solstice blessings
And blessings be to you to!! St Thomas's day is nearly upon us - chosen because of doubting man's inability to believe that the sun would return the next day!! There are reasons for choosing these saints days, that would make most Christians scream in horror and demand they be changed!!

After all, the Annunciation (Angel Gabriel, Mary and all that) is on 25th March, Eostre, a festival associated with fertility and birth. Add 9 months to that and you get.......?!!!

A good healthy respect for other religions is not heretical! Where in the bible does it tell you to go and kill some bloke just because he doesn't recited the creed facing East, or prays to Mary as well as the rest of the trio?

LTS