On 12/23/2010 1:42 PM, Eric Bielefeld wrote:
To all: Have a wonderful and Merry Christmas, and remember the reason for the season! I suspect Jesus gets lost in the shuffle and hubub of Christmas way too often.
I appreciate, and would like to reciprocate, the sentiment, but Jesus was born in Spring, and we're celebrating now only because church elders co-opted a "pagan" celebration of the solstice.
Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
