On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 22:32:01 -0500, "jsmith" wrote:

The secularists have been chipping away at the word Christmas for a number
of years now and are substituting irrelevant (religious ??) concoctions to
diminish the value of the celebration of the birth of Christ. Isn't it time
we begin boycotting those merchants who in their TV advertising are
exploiting the Christmas tradition yet not acknowledging that this is truly
the Christmas season. The code word "holiday" season is coming into
increasing use in an effort to minimize the influence the Truths that were
taught by the Prince of Peace.


This was the original message in this thread, which is off-topic in all the
groups it was posted in, and yet has now taken over alt.genealogy to the
extent that 2 out of 3 messages in that newsgroup are devoted to this subject.

Please, people, if you reply to it, set follow-ups to alt.idiots, or some
other newsgroup where it is ON topic, or else reply by e-mail to the original
poster, jsmith



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