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Re: Wassail

From: Spbarker@aol.com
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 17:23:43 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Wassail
To: love-hounds@gryphon.com

Leigh wrote:

>    Ironic don't you think that the christian faith should adopt such a 
>    paganistic ritual - maybe it was done to gain popularity with (us) the 
>    heathens!!

When it comes down to it, most of the major Christian festivals are just
thinly disguided pagan ones.  In fact, they didn't even bother to come up
with a new name for Easter (it's named after the pagan goddess Eastre).

Simon.