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- From: maguire@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Bill Maguire)
- Subject: Re: Is Santa Claus God?
- In-Reply-To: pjnelson@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu's message of Tue, 22 Dec 1992 07:54:49 GMT
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- In article <BznHzE.43r@news.cso.uiuc.edu> pjnelson@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (nelson peter j) writes:
- >npm@dale.cts.com (Nancy Milligan) writes:
- >>What do other atheists think about Santa Claus? And for that matter,
- >>how many of us celebrate Christmas? Should we? Even if we say
- >>we're celebrating the winter Soltice, that's still a religious
- >>holiday for druids.
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- In the Dallas paper yesterday there was a letter to the editor from a
- woman who said that teaching children that Santa Claus is real, then
- having them find out that he is not, might lead them to the same views
- about God and Satan.
-
- I thought that this might be a good thing, but I'm sure I didn't have
- the reaction she was looking for.
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- -Bill
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