To: familyop
I figure the annual practice of The Sparring With The Infidel has become a Christmas Tradition right up there with wassailing and hasty pudding.
A hundred and fifty years ago it was the Christian establishment that was trying to put the kibosh on the Holiday that falls on the 25th of December every year. Said it was just an excuse for drunkenness and gluttony. The People weren’t having any of it. There was a rather famous book called A Christmas Carol written about it if I remember correctly.
18 posted on
11/19/2007 7:43:22 PM PST by
ichabod1
("Self defense is not only our right, it is our duty." President Ronald Reagan)
To: ichabod1
...well said and true. Incoming European immigrants of the 1800s brought it. Early Protestant communities rejected it.
20 posted on
11/19/2007 7:52:46 PM PST by
familyop
("I'll buy that for a dollar!" --C.M. Kornbluth, in "The Marching Morons")
To: ichabod1
Let the retail stores decide. As they emulate stores like Lowes which are devoid of Christmas, they will slowly kill the Christmas spirit. Sales will fall off and the anti capitalists will be happy, the true Christians will adjust to the true meaning of Christmas and the retailers will be dazed.
21 posted on
11/19/2007 8:00:52 PM PST by
paguch
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