[newgeezer]

Thanks for posting the entire article, and helping to stamp out unnecessary excerpting. :-)

{Pagan-rituals-masquerading-as-Christianity-in-Rome ping.}

[EggsAckley]

My pleasure. There was NO REASON for this to be excerpted. Unneccessary excerpting is SO annoying, especially when an article is as good as this one. Many, many people miss out on reading an article that is excerpted.

[biblewonk]

There are so many pagan/Christian crossovers and finger pointing it's hard to get as excited as I used to. I admit to getting pretty excited during the shortest day of the year because I know the days are getting longer and the sun will be coming back. A lot of the physical acts that go along with some miracles in the bible remind me of spell casting.