No Santa please, we're Czechs
By Dinah Spritzer in Prague
Published: 04 December 2006
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2037441.ece
The freedom-loving Czechs are again rebelling against an imperialist tyrant, although the oppressor this time is not the Kremlin but the world's favourite jolly fat man.
The Creative Copywriters' Club, a leading advertising association in the Czech Republic, has launched a campaign to eliminate the US-style Santa Claus. Its website, Anti-Santa.cz, features the Virgin Mary suckling the infant Jesus adorned in full Santa garb, replete with a pom-pom-topped hat!
Santa Gets the Sack... but there are no presents in this one
http://news.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=1791202006
Paul Stokes
In a development that is truly shocking even for the 'No ho ho' miserabilist times in which we live, the normally warm and jovial Germans have banned poor old Santa from that most festive of festive scenes: the Christmas market.
Christmas,
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761556859
annual Christian holiday commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ. Most members of the Roman Catholic Church and followers of Protestantism celebrate Christmas on December 25, and many celebrate on the evening of December 24 as well. Members of most Orthodox Churches around the world also celebrate the holiday on December 25. Some Orthodox Christians in Russia, Ukraine, the Holy Land (the historic region of Palestine), and elsewhere celebrate Christmas on January 7 because they follow the Julian calendar. Members of the Armenian Church observe Christmas on January 6, following the unique custom of celebrating both the birth and baptism of Christ on the same day.
The official Christmas season, popularly known as either Christmastide or the Twelve Days of Christmas, extends from the anniversary of Christ’s birth on December 25 to the feast of Epiphany on January 6. On the Epiphany, some Catholics and Protestants celebrate the visit of the Magi while Orthodox Christians, who call the feast Theophany, celebrate the baptism of Christ.
Historians are unsure exactly when Christians first began celebrating the Nativity of Christ. However, most scholars believe that Christmas originated in the 4th century as a Christian substitute for pagan celebrations of the winter solstice.
Alright since Christmas (by Hisory's best guess) oringinated in the 4th Century!
What is the problem now that the World is beginning to despise this particular Holiday? Can you say Armageddon?? This appears to me to be the beginning of the end of the World...keep right on this path and Biblical Prophecy is fullfiled!
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Santa Gets the Sack... but there are no presents in this one
http://news.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=1791202006
Paul Stokes
In a development that is truly shocking even for the 'No ho ho' miserabilist times in which we live, the normally warm and jovial Germans have banned poor old Santa from that most festive of festive scenes: the Christmas market.
Christmas,
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761556859
annual Christian holiday commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ. Most members of the Roman Catholic Church and followers of Protestantism celebrate Christmas on December 25, and many celebrate on the evening of December 24 as well. Members of most Orthodox Churches around the world also celebrate the holiday on December 25. Some Orthodox Christians in Russia, Ukraine, the Holy Land (the historic region of Palestine), and elsewhere celebrate Christmas on January 7 because they follow the Julian calendar. Members of the Armenian Church observe Christmas on January 6, following the unique custom of celebrating both the birth and baptism of Christ on the same day.
The official Christmas season, popularly known as either Christmastide or the Twelve Days of Christmas, extends from the anniversary of Christ’s birth on December 25 to the feast of Epiphany on January 6. On the Epiphany, some Catholics and Protestants celebrate the visit of the Magi while Orthodox Christians, who call the feast Theophany, celebrate the baptism of Christ.
Historians are unsure exactly when Christians first began celebrating the Nativity of Christ. However, most scholars believe that Christmas originated in the 4th century as a Christian substitute for pagan celebrations of the winter solstice.
Alright since Christmas (by Hisory's best guess) oringinated in the 4th Century!
What is the problem now that the World is beginning to despise this particular Holiday? Can you say Armageddon?? This appears to me to be the beginning of the end of the World...keep right on this path and Biblical Prophecy is fullfiled!
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