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To: Alex Murphy
the "Santa-Free Zone" movement says it is gathering steam this year against what it calls the hollow commercialisation of Christmas.

This is just another ploy by a protestant cabal. Sounds like the roundhead puritans of merry olde englande are back....

13 posted on 12/21/2008 7:51:41 PM PST by x_plus_one (Muhammed and Allah = 2 memes destined for the ashheap of history.....)
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To: x_plus_one
This is just another ploy by a protestant cabal. Sounds like the roundhead puritans of merry olde englande are back....

Yes, it is something like that. I say "like that" because the English Puritans did not invent the attitudes that define puritanism. It exits in most religions.

I think the attitude is summed up in a line from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night:

Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?
Sir Toby Belch says that to Malvolio. Sir Toby is something of a hanger-on and a drunkard. Malvolio is a vain self-righteous prig. Of course it would be better to walk a path between these two extremes. But the debate may be perennial. Such is human nature.
14 posted on 12/21/2008 9:01:12 PM PST by stripes1776 ("That if gold rust, what shall iron do?" --Chaucer)
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